Mail.app signature bug

I'm attempting to edit a rather massive email signature on my iPhone 4 which I need for work (16 lines) and I have found that after I attempted to re-edit it, that I was no longer able to view the editing box on the screen fully. The screen had jammed the box past the top status bar. A reboot resulted in the box being a bit lower, but it was still flowing off the top of the screen rather than below the on screen keyboard.
Has anyone else encountered this or have a potential solution aside from shortening the signature?

Evidently, letting my phone turn off then going to unlock it which hid the keyboard was the solution. Once I tapped on the screen, the box moved down and I was able to edit the signature without any (more) annoyances.

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I think this is an issue with the phone's proximity sensor (the one that turns the screen off when you hold it up to your ear). It's a bug that seems to occur when you switch to another app (any app) while still on a phone call. You'll notice in Messages that the screen goes dark when you move your thumb over the earpiece/iSight camera, but not when you move your other thumb.
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.

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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.
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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.
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I'm afraid I don't have a solution, but I do have a similar problem...
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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?
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Mail.app, Link on signature-icon does not open URL

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Apple doesn't work here (except to moderate posts for terms of use). We're all just users like you.
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