# New user approval e-mail links to assets which might be inaccessible
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377 "2015-05-28T16:12:33Z")
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### Author:  [@PeterGrace](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PeterGrace)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377/1 "2015-05-28T16:12:33Z")
I’ve setup a discourse instance that is private-only in our organization. The new user approval e-mail contains links to image assets that are hosted on that server.
We use Google Apps, so our company e-mail is hosted by Google. Google likes to pre-download the images included in html e-mails before showing them to the user.
Because Google does not have access to our internal infrastructure, the assets show up as the broken-image icon in the e-mail body.
Would it be possible to make the default approval e-mail contain publicly-accessible assets to guard against this issue?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377/2 "2015-05-28T19:04:08Z")
I see, you should be able to edit the new user email via
admin, customize, text
From there change (re-upload) any referenced images from local to public on imgur or whatever you prefer.
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### Author:  [@PeterGrace](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PeterGrace)
#### Post date: [June 5, 2015, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377/3 "2015-06-05T20:34:39Z")
Thanks, I’ve edited the e-mail template to reference a publicly available source for those images.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2018, 6:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377/4 "2018-10-12T06:55:13Z")
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377/5 "2018-10-14T23:16:54Z")
Curious is the discourse instance still going 😊
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### Author:  [@PeterGrace](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PeterGrace)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377/6 "2018-10-15T13:04:27Z")
I’m not sure, I left Stack last November! I would assume it’s still running.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-user-approval-e-mail-links-to-assets-which-might-be-inaccessible/29377/7 "2018-11-14T13:18:36Z")
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