Relevant Product: Signature Manager Office 365 Edition
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Scenario
Occasionally, you notice that the images in your signatures and email messages are misplaced; for example, spurious resizing or a previously embedded image replaces the correct image.
Reason
There are two possible reasons for this behaviour:
- The original image name clashes with an Outlook generated name:
When creating a signature template, you used a simple image name; for example, image001.png.
By default, Outlook changes the names of embedded images to the format: image001@someID, image002@someID and so on.
If the name of your image happens to match the one generated by Outlook then the images are swapped and displayed incorrectly. -
Emails are sent using a Samsung Galaxy S5 or Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with Android v. 5.0:
This is a known issue with Samsung Galaxy S5 or Samsung Galaxy Note 3 running Android v. 5.0, however, the issue may be present with other devices.
Email clients on some mobile devices remove all CID elements from the message source. If a message thread includes multiple images, they will be available as attachments - but the last attached image will be inserted into every single empty CID element within the message thread.
Resolution
The resolution for both scenarios is summarised below:
- Original image name clashes with an Outlook generated name
If you use Signature Manager Office 365 Edition, avoid overly simple names (example: image001); instead, use something that is likely to be unique.
- Messages are sent using a Samsung Galaxy S5 or Samsung Galaxy Note 3 running Android v. 5.0
This issue occurs independently of Exclaimer software.
If you wish to test this, simply disable the Exclaimer signature policies on your server then send a number of test emails (containing embedded images) back and forth between Outlook and one of the problem devices. In doing so, you will see the issue with the images.