Comments on: Mozilla Thunderbird image in signature

By: betalissa

betalissa — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:54:50 +0000

The best way to attach the image into your signature without using any of the path for local disk nor online is to insert the encoded image in the signature:

This way you avoid the problem of moving, deleting or renaming the image and also your recipients has no inconvenience with confirming the remote content in case the image is online…

By: Karl

Karl — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:15:42 +0000

I had the same problem as Ernst. When I looked at the html file thunderbird created after I followed the instructions, I saw that the source directory path had been changed to include %20 in place of the spaces. I believe this is the problem that many of you are facing. If you prefer to use the html in the account settings window I believe this should resolve the problem. For example:
file://C:/My Pictures/My Logo File.jpg
changes to
file://C:/My%20Pictures/My%20Logo%20File.jpg

Those of you that use a language that uses accents and non-english characters in the path and filename might have other problems.

By: Jim Ramsbotham

Jim Ramsbotham — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:10:42 +0000

Ernst has it right. All the other tries just proved to be exercises in frustration.

This works, and as near as I can tell, the images stay intact when mail is sent, forwarded, etc.

Way to go Ernst!

By: Ernst

Ernst — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:23:34 +0000

I had the problem too. Here is what worked for me: http://email.about.com/od/mozillathunderbirdtips/qt/et_tb_sig_image.htm

Worked like a charm

By: Luis Bruno

Luis Bruno — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:34:37 +0000

Try putting the image on the root folder. I could only get it to work by using file://c:/image.jpg

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:29:16 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Milly. IF I can get the image to work, Thunderbird just sits there and won’t send.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:52:05 +0000

I can confirm Milly’s finding. If it works at all, at best it does not work very reliably on Thunderbird 2.x

By: Milly

Milly — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:39:54 +0000

I can’t get this to work. Signature looks perfect with embedded image, but Thunderbird won’t send it. It just keeps trying to attach the image for ever and never sends the email.
I must have visited every forum & helpsite on the web by now, and all give more or less the same html lines for the signature file, so I really, really don’t understand why it’s not working.
(neither with Ubuntu nor with Windows, both TB 2.0)

By: Brian Pontarelli

Brian Pontarelli — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:01:17 +0000

@Tom – It works because Thunderbird realizes that you are referencing a local image and includes it in the multipart MIME body of the email. It’s just a cool trick with Thunderbird and might not work with other email clients.

Your solution will work as well, but in general you shouldn’t reference images external to the email itself. You really should attach all the images as part of the email message that you are using inside the HTML of the email message. This is the correct way to send HTML emails and will work with all email clients and also will prevent some clients from not rendering the images without the user clicking a button.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:52:56 +0000

This can’t work. When the recipient gets the e-mail, his or her e-mail client will look on his local hard drive (because you’re referencing a local image, and it’s local to whomever) and not find it, displaying a blank image.

If you post the image to the web, and then reference it like http://www.example.com/hello.jpg, then it should work fine.