Serve images in emails from http or https?

email, email-attachments, email-spam, spam, spam-prevention

Solution

It doesn't make a difference. Almost everyone uses `http://` without any spam hit, so there is nowhere for `https://` to improve on that, even though spam filters are an accumulative score.

If there was something in either your content or reputation flagging you as spam, having `https://` linked images wouldn't award you any 'bonus points' to save the day.

Problem

Does it make a difference at all whether I serve the images in an email campaign from an encrypted domain? Will this make emails less likely to end up in a client's spam folder?

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