Stop Saving Pictures from Email Signatures within Tasks as Attachments
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Claus Piechatzek
I really hate that I always have plenty of Company Logos within my task attachements. Please stop that.
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Raina Ahuja
Update Dec 2025
Thank you all for the continued feedback! We know how disruptive the attachment clutter can be, especially with long email threads. We’re exploring a solution that would stop saving inline items (like signatures and icons) as task attachments entirely, while still allowing them to display in the email body. The challenge is that some teams rely on saved inline items as part of their workflows, so we’re considering options that prevent clutter while still supporting those use cases. We’ll share more soon as we evaluate the best path forward, but in the meantime, would you find an all-or-nothing solution like this valuable?
Stephanie McIntyre
It's not even the inline stuff, but it's the 20000000 attachments along the bottom and the team gets confused on what's an actual attachment and what's a stupid image.
It's the only reason we've not moved our emails into ClickUp (anyone else remember when that was promised? LOL that was like circa 2019).
There should be options to set this up, or a right click ability to save as attachment.
Because the way emails also load into clickup just lopoks horrible
Michael Pfaff
I would prefer an option to have the excluded or at least a way group select the signature images for deletion. Deleting them one at a time it is a pain or maybe an automation that can remove them?
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Tammy Collins
For us, all or nothing is fine. We are currently not even using the email app because of the attachments.
Lisa Rue
I would not like all or nothing-there are valuable attachments on emails that need to stay but the icons and signature blocks are very disruptive to workflow and finding items. gotta be a way to just block those.
Chance Sampson
Yes, please. All-or-nothing would work fine for our workflow.
Arnoud Post
I think a lot of people depend on the inline images, so I think the all-or-nothing option would not help a lot of people if it is just that. Here are a few suggestions that might be interesting to include:
- as email signatures are always the same filename (or you could do an MD5 on it) give the option to quickly remove and block in the future.
- setting for add to task as attachment automatically (the all or nothing setting) combined with a better add/remove manually. So the new function in this would be to not attach automatically, but being able to add to the task attachments quickly from the activity/comment section with a single click/drag.
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Andy Rytterström
Many times it is the same images from email signatures that come in my attachments. Maybe it can set in its own clickup which files to exclude from all mailings from email?
Eric Franken
Hi Raina Ahuja. Yes, an all-or-nothing solution is fine for me.
Raina Ahuja
Update Dec 2025
Thank you all for the continued feedback! We know how disruptive the attachment clutter can be, especially with long email threads. We’re exploring a solution that would stop saving inline items (like signatures and icons) as task attachments entirely, while still allowing them to display in the email body. The challenge is that some teams rely on saved inline items as part of their workflows, so we’re considering options that prevent clutter while still supporting those use cases. We’ll share more soon as we evaluate the best path forward, but in the meantime, would you find an all-or-nothing solution like this valuable?
Alex Rizea
Raina Ahuja yep, as long as we can pick our poison that would very beneficial. I imagine most people bothered by this as a feature would be fine to not have it at all, and people that require such a feature would be fine to have some extra noise due to it happening even when they don't need it, and that's fair
Rick van Wijngaarden
Raina Ahuja yes, please
Ferdie van Schalkwyk
Raina Ahuja I think the biggest concerns is embedded image clutter, I don't think anyone wants that as part of any workflow. being albe to switch those off would allow us to start using email integration.
How you can deal with attachment clutter is to add a filter option with the source of the attachment. something like:
- Direct
- Comment
- Form
- API
- ALL
That way you get the best of all worlds
Christian Gustafson
Raina Ahuja - possibly. Would an inline image + size filter work? The signature icons, logos, and even profile pictures tend to be pretty small <50KB.
I did a spot check on a task with 48 attachments and this would remove 41 (leaving only legit files and two larger inline images - a MASSIVE improvement).
Florian Schardt
Raina Ahuja Yes, for the meantime it would help, if we could deactivate saving of pictures in emails. Only pictures though, other files (Word, Excel, PPT, PDF) should still be saved.
Also feasible: Check if exactly the same attachment was saved previously. In that case would would have at least every icon only saved once per task.
Debbie Miller
Christian Gustafson you took the words right out of my mouth! I think this would be a great approach to remove the icons but keep the true file attachments in place.
Rebekka Takamizu
Yes PLEASE
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