How can i set up emails with header and signature

Question

HI all
I have an email account that is work only, all emails sent have a graphic header on the top, and finish with my name and company contact details.
I would like this done automatically, Currently I drag the header in, which is a pain when I send a lot. I have set up the signature but when I reply to an email, it puts the signature at the bottom of the whole email and not just the reply. Is there a way of making my life easier.
Russ

Answer 1

For Apple Mail, you can set this up using what is called "stationery"; it's off to the top right of the message composition window when you're sending a message. Click that, and select the stationery you want to fill in. See the mail documentation and see the "Save As Stationery..." options in the menu.
Mac OS X Server doesn't AFAIK have a mechanism for automatically inserting this sort of stationery stuff at the mail server; the message contents are largely determined locally at the Apple Mail or other mail client.
Here's [Apple Mail Stationery Pro Tip|http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/mail_templates.html]. As for selecting this by default, I don't know that that's available without some local customizations. There are ways to cause a particular template to open by adding it into the dock or the Finder sidebar, but I don't know of an integrated way to automatically and always select a default stationery for your messages.
See if the folks over in the [Apple Mail forums|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1338] might know more about that.
And here are [more details than you probably want|http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Con ceptual/MailArticles/Articles/stationery.html] on how this stuff is constructed.