How to put an image in a signature with Thunderbird

[Justin W]

Gordon Charrick wrote:
> I know everyone on here is saying no the idea on principal and I agree 
> - for this list I only send text.
>
> But, I have my own small business and I've set up another account on 
> Thunderbird to pick up that account's email and I have it set up to 
> send email in HTML because I'd like to have my logo on the email. I 
> have the following file set up as my signature:
>
> <pre>
> Gordon Charrick
> blah blah blah
> </pre>
> <img src="file:///home/gmc/business/logo2.jpg">
>
> When I compose email for this account, the signature looks good and 
> the image is right under the preformatted text. When I send a test 
> email to myself, I get the text but not the graphic. Any clues?
>
You either need to host the image on a web server and point the link to 
the image's URL, or else you need to read up on images referenced by a 
cid URL type.  If you search around for information about it, you may be 
able to embed the image as a multipart in the signature, depending on 
whether a signature can hold enough data (I don't know if there are any 
set limits).  The multipart boundary may cause problems though too, so a 
data URL type is usable if the image data is really short.

Justin W