Hi Dan, In response to my instructions to create signature files by selecting individual email accounts in mail's preference pane for signatures, and then using the "Create new signature" button Dan Eickmeier wrote: > >Ester, it would make sense to me that if you selected all accounts, >that a signature which you'd created, would be available for any >account? Any idea why this isn't the case?
You need to get an answer from someone who regularly uses these mail features instead of me, and maybe there's a simpler way to create signatures that work for all email accounts in one step. I do know that the only way I can get the signatures created when I select "All Signatures" at the top of the email accounts column to work in a specific email account is by using VoiceOver drag and drop the names of these signatures onto individual email accounts in the accounts column. Copy and paste doesn't work. The way the Take Control guide describes it, you can create the signatures you want under "All Signatures" and then drag and drop your selections into individual email accounts. (I've done this with VoiceOver, but it's a pain. And if anyone can tell me the descriptive name for the "VO-Command-Shift-Space" key combination that starts and ends the "drag" so I can use a NumPad Commander sequence, I'd love to know.) I certainly haven't been able to find a way to generate signatures for all email accounts at once; if you create the signatures under "All Signatures" in the accounts column, none of the signatures show up under individual email accounts until you drag and drop, or create them under the selected account. My only thought here is that if you are using different email accounts you may also be using different email addresses, and these get created as part of the signature automatically, although you can edit this. (At least, when I tried this "Signature #1" was the default entry for the signature name, and the default entry for the signature field was my name and email address. Both fields can be edited.) In addition, MobileMe (which is still identified as dot Mac in my mail preferences list), allows you to use email address aliases. And you might want to use Professional and Informal signatures for each mailing list that you're on, but have them use different signature content (to go with the email address). The "Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard" guide certainly gives a lot more information than the system Help file, which reads: To create a signature: Step 1. Choose Mail > Preferences, and then click Signatures. Step 2. Create a signature. Sorry not to have a better answer than my instruction number 8: >8. Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each email account (or use VoiceOver >Drag and Drop to select signatures in the names column of one email >account and drop them onto another email account in the accounts >column). HTH. Cheers, Esther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
