Mail preferences creating signatures

I'm on Mail 3.5. I cannot get things to work when I try to add a signature in Mail>Preferences. I have followed the instructions slowly and carefully. Help, please!

May you take care of what you do?
You are asking about Mail in a forum dedicated to Pages.
May you post your question in the forum dedicated to Mail ?
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1223
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 30 septembre 2008 14:07:04)

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When going into Mail>Preferences, I am not seeing any tab or option for setting up Signatures per Mail Help.
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I understand what you're saying - and that typically this option is there, yet like I said - there is no signature option.
When I click Mail>Preferences an "Accounts" window opens. There are three tabs at the top of the window - Account Information, Mailbox Behaviors & Advanced.
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There’s a discussion about the very same problem I’m having at <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2047886&#2047886> about Mail not being able to save preferences... or at least a message pops up each time despite the fact that the preferences are saved. Annoying, really. I’ve followed all the steps suggested in the above thread, including terminal commands and repairing of permissions. However, the problem didn’t go away. Unfortunately, the thread above was closed (without being answered), so I had to open a new post. Here’s a description of the problem as stated in the above thread... and the problem occurs exactly like that on my Powerbook running 10.4.7.
**** Original question follows ***
At some point in time, I suddenly began having the problem of every time I close my Mail preferences window, I get an error message stating, "Error Saving Preferences - Writing your preferences to disk has failed. Your preferences may not have been saved. The permissions on ~/Library/Preferences may be wrong or your disk may be full."
My hard disk has many GB free, and I still keep getting the error message after repairing permissions.
I ran a test of changing a couple of prefs, then quitting Mail and relaunching, and my changes stuck.
But some prefs such as changes to signatures won't stick (although they never did, so the latter may be unrelated to my current problem).
In any event, it's disconcerting that I keep getting the error message.
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The preference file may be corrupt.
Try the following:
Quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop.
Note: Moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
The only exception to this is if you have a .Mac account and/or you created an email account as part of the original computer setup assistant used when first turning on the computer after it was purchased which will be re-created automatically.
Launch Mail and decline the prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailbox files at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder and old com.apple.mail.plist file from the Desktop.
Test if this resolves the problem.
My hard disk has many GB free, and I still keep getting the error
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I use Apple Mail on both my MacBook and iPhone to sync with my IMAP account and have recently acquired a problem:
Although I don't use the To Do function in Mail, Mail has been creating an Apple Mail To Do folder in my iPhone/MacBook folder list. At first this was at the top level of the hierarchy, same as my other mail folders. I deleted it when first noticed and have attempted to delete again since (perhaps foolishly), and now Mail keeps creating new copies of the "Apple Mail To Do" folder, only… each time it is nested inside two, three, four, five(!) "Inbox" folders.
Looks like this:
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This solution does not delete the AppleMail Todo mailbox but provides a workaround that keeps those annoying subfolders out of your inbox and prevents them from "breeding."
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The wage-donkey I spoke to at Apple Tech support- "Tier 2" no less - INSISTED this is not a problem caused by mail.app, but rather it was a server-side issue. He said the folder in question MUST exist on the server and is being pushed to the mac every time the IMAP mailbox is created in mail app. Rather than attempting to trouble-shoot the issue, he adamantly argued his point until I hung up.
You can attempt to prove his point for him by trying the following:
1) Log on your mail server via web browser and delete the offending folders.
2) move ~/Library/Mail and ~/Library/Preferences/apple.mail.plist to the trash.
3) Disconnect computer from the internet.
4) Set-up IMAP account manually.
5) Relaunch mail.app.
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6) Hit cancel to deny Mail.app's request.
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7) Quit mail.app
8) Restore your internet connection.
9) Relaunch mail.app. It will make the same request as step 5. Click ALLOW.
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Sorry I posted this under Tiger discussions as well, but it wasn't my intention. I am running Leopard now:
- I upgraded to Leopard today. My mail application that I have been using all along has been Entourage, but decided to switch to Mail.
- Setup walked me through and I configured another account (besides the .mac account created automatically).
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- Tried reinstalling Mail from CD. Tried rebooting MAC. Tried removing and reinstalling again... nothing!
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Ernie,
Thanks again.
This is strange indeed! I can not do what you suggested. We must not be on the same page.
When I select the Mail pull down menu right under "About Mail" is the "Preferences" item. There are a series of periods behind it which usually indicates more options when the item is selected or highlighted. In this case nothing happens until it is selected at which you are taken to a "general" screen full of items with scroll through lists to select from. Accounts is not an item. Holding down the option key doesn't change the results at any point I tried.
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Mail was working just fine all day. My wife tries to reply to a message received earlier and gets the following error message:
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I go to Mail->Preferences and the only Preference pane I get is for Junk Mail. General, Accounts, Fonts and Colors, Viewing, Composing, Signatures, Rules are all missing. Can't very well verify the SMTP server settings if the Preference pane isn't there.
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OK, I found the answer in a reply to another question. The pill-shaped buton in the upper right corner of the Junk Mail Preference pane retrieved the rest of the Preferences and I was able to check my SMTP Server settings, which were correct. My test messages also came through this morning, leading me to believe that my ISP had a problem on their end, which was subesequently corrected.
My habit has always been to close any Preferences window while in the "Show All" mode, so I didn't think to check that first.
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ls -ld ~/Library/Preferences
ls -l ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
What do they say?
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1. Quit Mail.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Preferences/. Locate the com.apple.mail.plist file and move it to the Desktop (to be deleted if this fixes the problem).
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Thanks

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Message was edited by: Ernie Stamper

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