Mail.app losing signatures [SORRY, OT]

Sorry, I can't find a forum here for questions about Apple Mail.
Every time I restart [or log out of ] my MBPro (2007), the list of 58 signatures Mail.app is supposed to keep for my default email account disappears.
I can easily restore them en masse from the "All SIgnatures" list by copying and pasting. But this should not be happening. Is there a .plist file that's responsible?
MacOS X v 10.5.3; happened with 10.5.2 as well, possibly earlier.
Thanks.

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Mail forum is a subset of the Leopard forum. You can post here.

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Mail.app losing signatures

Every time I restart or log out of my MBPro, all 58 signatures Mail.app is supposed to keep for my default email account disappear.
I can easily restore them en masse from the "All SIgnatures" list by copying and pasting. But this should not be happening. Is there a .plist file that's responsible?
MacOS X v 10.5.3.
Thanks.

I don't know where I found this trick, but it helped in my case...just change the account description (In Preferences>Accounts>Account Information) of the account that loses its associated signatures...avoid dots, dashes and put it as plain as you can...save. Now reassociate the signatures...et voilà
Hope it helps
Roberto Bellina

Mac Mail keep losing signatures

I am using Mail 2.1 on a Powerbook running OSX 10.4.10. I have two mail accounts. I can create signatures for each mail account. During the session of mail when I create them they work as they should, i.e. If I select account A in new message, the appropriate signature is applied, If I select account B the same occurs. I can even select a different signature for each.
However, if I leave Mail and go back in (just closing the program does it, no need for restart) all of the signatures for account A are no longer assigned to it. They appear under all signatures but are no longer linked to account A and so can't be selected when sending a message to use to that account.
I can drag the sigs back to Account A during this new session of Mail and all is well until I restart.
I've tried deleting both accounts and recreating them. I've deleted all the sigs and recreated them. I've changed the order of everything.
Any help is appreciated!

OK - I found out why the signature kept disappearing on one of my accounts: there was no outgoing server set.
Once I changed from "none" to my actual server, the signatures were retained after quitting Mail. Now, I'm using Mail 3 in Leopard, but this may help in any version.

Mail.app & signatures. Is there a limit to the content or number?

we run a printing company and wanted to take advantage of our mail.app to tag on other services we offer. we wanted to do a random, rotating list of 40 or so signatures. Each with a different pdf featuring a different product. But it seems that when we use the signature feature, emails are not received, they seem to go out on our end, but never received by anyone. No signature, no problem. I've even tried deleting all the signatures and going back to just text. as long as the signature is set to none the email goes. Does anyone know what's going on?

Did you check to see if any of the recipients had filters in place to ignore or delete HTML emails, or emails with attachments? If not, that could be the issue. Have you tried testing these by sending messages from one of your email accounts to a different one to see if you receive them?
As for a limit, there might be, but Apple has never stated that there is, so unless you reach a point where it refuses to accept or use a particular signature, I'd have to guess the answer is 'No'. There'd be no point in limiting content, since as long as an email uses valid HTML or CSS markup, you should be able to include it in a signature; but testing before actually using is always advised.
Mulder

Mail.app, Link on signature-icon does not open URL

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- This link works not in a received message, when the recipient is Mail.app on Yosemite.
- With Mail.app on Mavericks it works well.
Behaviour:
- Double-Click opens the attached picture, but not the URL in the browser, as expected.
- URL ist shown correctly on MouseOver
... sometimes, condition are not reproducible ....it works :-(
To create the link I used the method as described at. http://mac-fusion.com/clickable-social-media-icons-in-your-mail-app-signature/
Can anybody confirm this behavior?
Any workaround in creating the Hyperlink - or is it a bug?

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Mail Feedback

Temporarily Disable Signatures in Mail App?

In the Mail app, I have only one account, bhabecker. I have a bazillion signatures that randomly rotate through. I have a Christmas set, and a rest-of-the-year set. Previously (and I don't know when this stopped being the case), I would delete all the siggies out of my bhabecker account and replace them with the Christmas ones that were living in All Signatures. After the holidays, I would delete the Christmas ones from bhabecker and re-add the regular ones from the All Signatures "account". Now, if I delete a siggy in my bhabecker account, it also deletes in All Signatures. I am not able to temporarily inactivate a signature now. It's kind of lame. Is this something I can fix?

In Mail Preferences/Signatures, select this account, and then in the Choose Signature box, select None.
Ernie

Signature in new mail app

so I was using mark up and experimented with the signature
function . works great
what if I don't have a picture in the email but want to use the same signature I created with mark up to sign my emails,
Is there a way to do this?

radman wrote:
Have you tried to use mark up to add a signature to a pic yet?
Its much more intuitive than keeping your picture of your signature stored on a server.
Apple's implementation of the signature function with markup is ingenious. It seems it wouldn't take to many extra lines
of code to carry that same functionality to use as a signature outside of markup. Since markup remembers the signature it created from one
email to the next that image of my signature is already being stored on the mail app
Yes I have tried this new feature to add a scanned hand_signature to a pic attached to email.
This does not seem to address your initial question if I understood it correctly.
the Signature function is limited to text the way I see it in Mail as it stands.
Maybe I am missing something.

Why do I keep losing signatures in Apple Mail after I select a signature in Preferences?

Why do I keep losing signatures in Apple Mail after I select a signature in Preferences?

When you connect your Mac back up to the Exchange server, it will “sync” what is on the server to your Mac, losing all those older emails. Don’t reconnect until you have moved them.
To move them, Drag them from the Exchange folders on Mail and into an iCloud folder. The emails will then be stored on iCloud instead of on the exchange server.
You could also just create mailboxes on your Mac and drag them into that. They wouldn’t be accessible to other devices, but you’d have them on your Mac.
To create new Mailboxes, Click the Add ( + ) button at the bottom of the Mailbox list and choose New Mailbox…
You can choose where that folder is stored, either under On My Mac for a local mailbox, or in your iCloud account which will make a folder on the iCloud server.
In the future, you need to start moving your emails to those independent mailboxes as you file them, and set up a rule that will move anything older than 50 days into a “catch-all” Mailbox you create on that same location (either On My Mac or iCloud). Mail Preferences, Rules.

Signature Mail.app and picture

Is it possible to import a picture to signature?
I want to make a signature in Mail.app with a picture of our company.
Like the way MS Outlook can.
Could you help me with that?
With kind regards,
Peter Tollenaar
the Netherlands

You sure can.
Here are two ways to do this, including an illustrated walk-through from Skype which is easy to follow.

Mail app Signature!!!!

Is there any app that can let me insert a picture as a signature on my mail app, but make it as default, i mean not having to enter the app every time I want the signature copied as a clipboard, a built in app?

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Just realised this is referring to iPhones... it was in my 'Related questions' box when I was looking at mac questions. Whoops.
There's an iPhone app called email signature pro, but it won't change your native iOS email signature.

OSX Lion Mail.app bug in signatures containing a URL

This is highly reproducable: try adding an image followed by text in a signature in Mail.app. Now select the image and add a url (CMD+K) e.g. to your company website. So far this should look the way you expect. Now click on some other preference, so Mail saves the signature. I have multiple signatures, so I just click any other signature. Click back on the signature you have just created, and notice how all text that came after the image now is underlined.
Why?
There's a bug in the way Mail saves the webarchive file for the signature (~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures/<blabla>.webarchive. When you open this file, you will find a bunch of binary bla, followed by invalid (see missing quotes in attributes below) HTML, that will contain your image similar to this:
<a href="http://www.mywebsite.com/">
<SPAN class="Apple-string-attachment"><OBJECT height=53 width=157 type=application/x-apple-msg-attachment data="cid:[email protected]"></OBJECT></SPAN>
Don't ask me why Mail capitalizes just these tags and not any other tags, but the most important bit is that Mail forgets to add the closing tag </a>, so now everything trailing the image is linked too.
I cannot reproduce this in Safari, so apparently Mail and Safari do not share code here. I have tried what happens when copy/paste a valid rendered HTML file with the appropriate signature text from Safari into Mail, but the result is the same.

also via applescript same beahviour, composing a message and including an attachment after setting the signature make underlined all the text after the first email adress inside the signature.

Mail.app: Signatures Won't Save in one POP Account

Hi,
Looked high and low for a solution to this. Searched Apple discussions and macosxhints and googled the problem but so far no joy. This is not a major problem but it is quite annoying.
There are multiple email accounts set up in Mail.app (Version 3.6 (936)) on my MacBook Pro, running Mac OS 10.5.8. All except one account will save all my signatures. In all I have ten signatures, all of which disappear between launches of mail from a POP gmail account. I add them back at each launch and the next time I open Mail they're gonzo. So, I add them back again. I tried moving the placement of the account in the side-bar, still no-go. I have set Mail.app prefs not to apply the sigs automatically. I choose when and if I use a signature.
To add them I do as I have done to the other email accounts: select all of them and drag and drop them onto the email account in the Signature pane of Mail.app's preferances.
More info: all the sigs are all rtf formatted, most of the accounts are POP, though three are IMAP. No other account is affected except this one gmail account (I have other gmail POP accounts and other non-gmail POP accounts. This is the second to oldest POP account. The problem has only occurred since a recent Apple security update. Though I can't say that is the problem or just a coincident.
If all else fails, just as a work-around, is there an "applescriptable" way to add sigs to mail?
Thanks

I'm afraid I don't have a solution, but I do have a similar problem...
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion none of my signatures will stay where I put them, or they disappear. Previous to the upgrade everything was working perfectly.
I'll assign a signature to a particular e-mail address and usually within a day, when I go back to send an e-mail from that address there is no signature available to be selected in the e-mail composing window. When I check in Mail Prefs I see that the signature has disappeared completely from the e-mail address to which it was assigned and is now listed under "All Signatures", but these are not available to any of the e-mail addresses when composing e-mails.
An identical problem occurs on another iMac I use in my office, which is also synced with iCloud.
I've tried a number of times to delete all the signatures and start again, both on one computer and on both, but nothing seems to work.
Does anyone have any ideas?...

Has anyone else had an issue where Mail.app signatures and rules disappeared?

For unknown reasons, I lost all my Mail.app signatures and Rules on Oct 10, 2012 at about 9:00AM PST.
Anybody else see something like this?
Also, I am getting sandboxd warnings that are Mail preference related....
I am guessing that the preferences access error that the sandboxd is having is related but who knows...
Anybody seen these kinda log messages?
11/8/12 6:08:53.579 PM sandboxd[1589]: ([423]) Mail(423) deny file-read-data /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
repeated many times per hour.
there also seems to be a problem with the mdworker process .... that is perhaps related to the Mail issue....
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net mdworker[5984]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net mdworker[5983]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net mdworker[5985]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net sandboxd[5987] ([5984]): mdworker(5984) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net sandboxd[5987] ([5983]): mdworker(5983) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net sandboxd[5987] ([5985]): mdworker(5985) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

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Simplest solution is to force-quit the Messages app (double-click the home button, and swipe up on the app). The problem should resolve itself when you restart Messages.

Mail.app signatures and rules gone after update

After updating to OS X 10.9.4 and Mail.app 7.3 all my mail signatures and rules are gone.
If I now recreate those rules and signatures they are gone when I restart.
I have tried repairing permissions in disk utility. It has not restored my lost configurations nor does it allow me to maintain preferences across restarts.
I do not have Time Machine backups, all my data is with Google. The only things on my computer which are not on Google are things like this Mail client configuration.
Has anyone else lost this configuration and been able to restore it?

After updating to OS X 10.9.4 and Mail.app 7.3 all my mail signatures and rules are gone.
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I have tried repairing permissions in disk utility. It has not restored my lost configurations nor does it allow me to maintain preferences across restarts.
I do not have Time Machine backups, all my data is with Google. The only things on my computer which are not on Google are things like this Mail client configuration.
Has anyone else lost this configuration and been able to restore it?

Signatures no longer works in mail app

I started modifying my signatures and after a few changes they quit showing up so I deleted them and now I can't do anything.

Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Quit the application if it's running. Restore the selected item from a backup made before the unwanted changes.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Mail.app losing signatures [SORRY, OT]

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