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  1. Horizontal line shows on some messages

    There is a known Outlook bug where certain combinations of font size and font family will trigger a rendering error that’s creates a 1px horizontal line of the email background color to appear. This bug appears most often at the bottom of the ...
  2. Images are not displaying on mobile devices. How do I prevent Outlook from automatically embedding them?

    First, make sure you are using PoliteMail’s Add Image feature. This will place your images into your email as an HTML reference, instead of embedding them.  If, despite using the PoliteMail > Add Image command, the images are stil...
  3. Embedded Images for an Appointment/Meeting Do Not Work in Your Current Version of Outlook Error

    You must have Outlook version 2016+ installed to embed images in appointments or meetings. If you have PoliteMail version 4.9 and above, you can use PoliteMail's Add Image feature to add images to your Outlook Calendar invites. ...
  4. Templates Or Messages Not Holding Font Styling

    If you are using Outlook 2016 with PoliteMail you may notice that certain font style revisions  such as font size, bold/italic or font color may not hold within your templates or email messages. These same messages may view as revised &nbs...
  5. From Address Changes When Sending a Measured Email

    This is a behavior that occurs based on how the From Address is selected at time of send. When an Outlook cached Address is selected, it can sometimes fail to persist when sending email through the PoliteMail Server. For this reason, it is best to...
  6. My message keeps going to the Drafts folder

    If you are having problems sending an email tracked, where after you click Send the message goes into the Drafts folder, the PoliteMail send process has failed. The Drafts folder is located in the Folder Pane on the left hand side of Outlook. Cli...
  7. Images are not loading with Add Image

    This usually happens if .jpg images were saved in CMYK format instead of RGB format. If you load the image into your image editing software and resave the image in RBG format, the Add Image command will work. Graphic images for email should be in w...
  8. Why are there extra image attachments after I send a message?

    As a best practice, its recommended to use PoliteMail's Add Image feature. However, if you paste images into your email, or use Outlook’s Insert picture command, Outlook will place the images into your email as file attachments. When y...
  9. How do I prevent Outlook from automatically embedding images?

    If the images you place into a PoliteMail message are getting delivered as attachments, or your emails (file size) are too large and are taking too long to send, Outlook may be automatically embedding all images. When you paste images into an Outlo...
  10. My Images are not scaling within Templates

    If you are using a PoliteMail template and images are not scaling while the text and table are, you can use the mo_re100% fix that allows the images to scale with text and table. Right click the image and click Edit Alt Text (format picture in ...