When you import your templates into MailBuild, we automatically download all your images and convert all your links so they can be tracked through your client's reports.

But, what if on the odd chance you didn't want us to do that? What if you wanted to pull an ad banner from an external server and that image rotated each month? In other situations, the link tracking might not be the best option, such as linking to an account login page. By converting the URL to our tracking domain it may make the recipient suspicious. By hard linking to an important or secure page, you can ensure a recipient doesn't think it's a phishing email.

We've just added a couple of simple attributes you can add to your code that let us know to leave certain bits alone. All you need to do is add either the mb_dontimportimage or mb_dontconvertlink attribute to your image or link tags. As a quick example, here's the image tag in action:

Turning off image importing

<img src="http://www.myserver.com/filename.jpg" width="20" height="20" alt="alt text here" mb_dontimportimage>

Turning off link tracking

<a href="http://www.myserver.com" mb_dontconvertlink>this is a link</a>

Although we don't do any conversion when we detect these values, we do remove the mb_dontimportimage and mb_dontconvertlink values when we actually send your client's campaign.

Please note that these tags only apply to your template code, and not the content your clients add. If a client adds their own image or links to the email content, these will be uploaded and tracked for them automatically.