Cache html signature image

Hi Apples,
In 10.5 I can drag an image to a new mail message from firefox, effectively embedding the image to my new e-mail. I can't do this is 10.4.
If I use css to code a signature, the image loads but is not cached for offline use (must be able to see the signature offline also).
I'm looking for a work around. Anyone?

Thanks for the quick reply BDAqua,
I have found an alternate way to achieve this; coding the css and html and then importing it as per the following example.
http://creativebits.org/HTMLemail_with_Mailapp_inTiger
Works a treat, works offline. Not yet tested in MS office.
Still looking for a way to stop mac mail from occasionally change it's formatting font to helvetica (niews as times new roman on a pc)

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HTML Signature Problem - Images not showing

Hi all,
I've got some HTML signatures that I use in Mail (v4.3) on Snow Leopard (10.6.4). They were created quite a while ago and have been working fine. BUT... I need to update them to change some of the information. So, I went through the usual rigamarole:
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- Replace the file with the new webarchive (renamed)
When I do this, now, Mail will not show the image that I have in the signature (which is a background image placed in the file using CSS and referenced as a URL from my web server).
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Anything you paste in the HTML is your responsibility. iWeb doesn't care about it. If it doesn't work, too bad.
Perhaps Posterous doesn't like to be displayed.
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I have an html signature which I tried to add to my Mac Mail app by following this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ukn9H3AEEA.
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I've tried this tutorial to put together an html signature including images.
http://allforces.com/2006/04/14/css-signatures/
As you can see at Step 6, the image shows when the signature is selected. When I compose an email however, I always get a 'blue question mark icon' as if the link to the image can't be found. I'm using images which are online, saved the html file as a webarchive file in safari etc. When I send the email anyway to for example my gmail address, the signature is ok and the image shows in the signature.
Why does the image doesn't show when I am writing the email and include the signature? Why do I get a blue question mark icon when writing the email? Perhaps I should point out that we're using IMAP should that matter.
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Hi there,
I had a similar problem with my .mac (mobileme) mail account. Followed basically same approach: I created the html signature in TextEdit and saved as a webarchive when opened in Safari. Then renamed it to have same name as existing non-html signature file in Home > Library > Signatures
(So, for those who are new to this, it basically replaces the one your mac created when you create a signature within Mail Prefs > Signatures; but even though you replace it, it needs to have the same name so it knows which mail account it applies to; I have 4 mail accounts in my program, with 4 sigs I created via the Prefs, so there were 4 of those sig files in Library).
Then I uploaded the image to an external server. Made sure I reselected the signature in the middle pane of the Prefs > Signatures area and dragged it over to the mail account.
Composed mail using .mac account, new signature DID appear (but it doesn't when looking at Prefs > Sig pane; that shows the ? mark because it doesn't go get the image at the external server, I guess). *Problem: when I sent mail as a test, it wouldn't show up in the mail that I sent.*
I just figured that Apple was stripping out the html sig. But today I tested again and it's there.
Somewhere in this thread, one of the guys mentioned giving it some time. That seems to have worked for me.
Just wanted to share because more and more people are starting to add html sigs.
(P.S. Also created these html sigs for my other, non-mobileme mail accounts and they appeared in the sent mail as soon as I sent the mail. No delay.)

Old html signature keeps appearing

Hi,
I created an html signature for my mail account. It has worked fine. Very simple. Just a link to an image (png) on my server.
The thing is, yesterday I altered the image slightly, saved, uploaded to server (overwrote the original), created the new webarchive, replaced the existing webarchive file in the Home--> Library --> Mail --> Sig folder. Renamed new webarchive file to match previous. When I compose new mail, the old signature appears. This happens even though it doesn't exist anymore in the Sig folder. And the image doesn't exist anymore on my server.
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The OLD signature (the previous image, that is, that I overwrote on my server) still keeps appearing! But as with the first example above, it doesn't exist anywhere!
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If the anchor sign is black on a yellow background then you inserted a named anchor into your signature.
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Does an html signature work with my .me account?

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Created an html signature: used TextEditor, opened in Safari, saved as a webarchive file.
Went to my Signatures file in Library and replaced my existing .mac mail signature (which I simply created within the Mail program) with the new one. Made sure the file name is the same as it was so it will be recognized.
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When I review Sent Message, there's no signature at all.
Is it being stripped? I ask because I did the same thing for another mail account that's through my domain and web host and it showed up beautifully.
So I know this works. But somehow not working with my .mac mail account. Yes, I uploaded the image for the signature to an external server.
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