Mail Preferences - Signatures?

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.
I'm somehow not getting the typical mail preferences window.

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Let me clarify what you have done, and whether that matches the way Signatures work. There is only one data base of Signatures, and they are composed in Mail Preferences/Signatures. After a Signature has been composed and added to the data base of Signatures, then it must become associated with an account for it to be related to that account. The same Signature can become associated with more than one account, and the method of association is to drag a Signature onto an account name in the Sidebar to the Signatures window.
At the top of the Sidebar is All Signatures, if you then click on each account below that, then it will be reported which Signatures have been associated with that one account.
Is this what you have done?
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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)

Error message says error writing Mail preferences

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.
Anyone know what's up? Is there a fix?

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
message after repairing permissions.
What is your hard drive capacity and available free space?

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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:
"This message could not be delivered and will remain in your Outbox until it can be delivered.
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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.
My Inbox looks OK and I have received one message since this all started. I can read the contents and was able to empty the Junk Mail and Deleted Messages mailboxes. File sizes in Users->xxx->Library->Mail all are the right size and appear intact.
I've tried a reboot and a complete system shutdown (including power disconnect), but Mail Preferences are still missing. There's nothing in the Trash that looks fishy. I've tried a couple of test messages back to my own e-mail account and got the same error message.
Is there a way to reinstall only the Mail app? Is there some way to find/verify that the Mail Preferences exist?
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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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I'm running Leopard and using two different user identities("A" and "B" on my macbook.
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Apple Mail, my signatures wont show,

I am having an issue with Apple Mail When I type an email and want to add my signature all I get is none or edit signatures,
I can see them when I look at them while editing( I figured I would try to see if editing changed something) but they do not come up when I want to select them, all I get is "none" or "edit Signatures". this problem started today, any ideas?
I have restarted the computer a few times to no avail. I have tried adjusting the settings in the mail but no luck. Out of ideas.
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You are so incredibly awesome!! What a simple solution to a frustrating issue that I have also been dealing with and trying to figure out. Yeah! Thank you so much for taking the time to respond to that question.
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