Outlook Signature delete images - email

For my work, we stumbled upon a little problem. We have made a few mailboxes, and when a user send a mail to this mailbox, it will make a ticket in our ticketing system.
That works fine! But our signature contains images, and our ticketing system takes these images as attachment. This is not what we want.
I tried making a transport rule to delete the signature, when we send it to one of these addresses, and looked it up on google. I saw on more sites that it was impossible to delete a signature with a transport rule.
I tried making a rule in outlook too, but i can't find anything.
Does somebody have the solution for this? I hope so! :)
Thanks in advance for thinking with me!

Look at the HTML body and find all the images. Delete attachments with the matching file name of the content-id property that matches the src attribute of the img tag.

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I know very little about Microsoft products, but I can tell you that the place I'm seeing this is in the online outlook.com you view in a web browser.
The simplest link, such as this...
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AND, it is not a link. It's just text. It appears as though the program is disabling the links (possibly because it finds the email suspicious of phishing, even though I added the domain to my trusted emails)???
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Like this:
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Someone may be able to explain to larger detail, but I'm guessing it is forcing the email client to fetch the image from said address (which I would guess is unique such that it can be cross linked to the intended receiver of the email).
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Edit:
As #bartdude also mentions in comments, positioning at end imposes least inconvenience on load times for the reader, as by then rest of the email should already be loaded, albeit this depends on implementation of loading process.
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I want to know how it works, with details.
In my opinion we have to create a php code that contains img tag, but I don't know how can I attach this on email content.
Thanks.
According to this FAQ entry, they insert an invisible image into the e-mail.
The idea behind this technique is that, upon e-mail opening, that image is downloaded from their server, providing them the IP address and the timestamp. Although, relying on the image being fetched, this service fails as soon as the image is not fetched (which you can configure many e-mail clients to do). EDIT: There is also a FAQ entry on that topic.
Inserting such an image into an e-mail is fairly simple: You need to get the e-mail html content and insert a new node. This is the second drawback: It fails when you use text messages. Instead, you would have to create a new HTML message.

Drupal email file attachment on form submit

I have a form built into a block on one of my content types, the content type has a file connected to the node.
I currently have a form the will send an email to the address you put in with a default message (ie if you put into the form, me#myemail.com, this email will receive a message saying "thank you for your interest.. ..please find your document attached" etc) However I'm struggling when it comes to attaching the file attachment of that node to the form, I have downloaded the mimemail module but there isn't a lot of documentation on how to do it.
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Is there a way to prevent this from happening? Perhaps a meta tag with a flag that would prevent Outlook from converting these into clickable links?
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