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I to set the signature to my emails by using the "attach the signature from a file instead" dialog and selecting a jpg file with my signature, but nothing shows

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I have a jpg with my signature, which I use on all the other email clients I work with (incredimail, eM client), and I select the "attach the signature from a file instead" and choose the file, but when I compose and send an email, the signature never shows. I don't want to do it via an HTML command 'cause if my recipient doesn't have HTML enabled, my signature just won't show, but as an image, it should show no matter what.

I have a jpg with my signature, which I use on all the other email clients I work with (incredimail, eM client), and I select the "attach the signature from a file instead" and choose the file, but when I compose and send an email, the signature never shows. I don't want to do it via an HTML command 'cause if my recipient doesn't have HTML enabled, my signature just won't show, but as an image, it should show no matter what.

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A plain text email client won't necessarily show any images. Thunderbird would show it as an attachment. The email clients on this Android tablet often offer to fetch images on demand. So there is no guarantee that users will see an image.

In theory you can use a naked image file as a signature, but I've never tried it, mainly because I've assumed that if I want to show an image, HTML is tacitly assumed. I use an addon that allows both a plain text signature and an HTML signature in the same file, the appropriate version being picked out according to the format of the message. Such an approach precludes images in plaintext messages.

Speaking as a potential recipient, I don't like graphic only signatures. They look like attachments so generate clutter in the thread pane. They may fall foul of anti-virus and other security software. And I can't copy and paste info from them. If I wanted a signature in the sense of an penned autograph at the foot of a message, I know that to get it to appear in the right place I'd have to embed it and therefore would have to use HTML.

You need to consider that anyone who sets their email client to show only plaintext, or chooses to use a text-only email client really doesn't want to see any graphics in their email. You're trying to cater for an audience who in reality don't want and don't care about your signature.

I suspect that your other email clients work in HTML mode by default.