Well I discovered:
~/Library/Mail/v6/MailData/Signatures
I have 2 mail signatures and there are 4 files in this directory. The
.mailsignature files appear to be a modified HTML file and then there are two
plist files. Apple uses plists files for configuration. They are essentially
XML files.
AccountsMap.plist property list, no permission to read
and
AllSignatures.plist property list, no permission to read
So I believe the all accounts plist is a array of signatures andante a mapping
between a random file name and the signature name.
Then the accounts.plist should indicate which mail accounts have access to
which mail signatures.
Note that by default the terminal application does not have read access to
these directories, only execute. I did not try an LS on the Library/Mail
directory to see if this is a standard permissions or a ACL that is preventing
full access.
Jonathan
.
> On Apr 1, 2020, at 6:33 AM, Bill Gallik <wfgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how/where the e-mail signatures are stored.
>
> Does individual signature reside within a dedicated file or are all
> signatures stored in an “archive file?”
>
> I ask because I find the window interface used to manage signatures extremely
> inefficient and clumsy. As of this moment, I have a folder entitled
> “Signature Tags” in my Documents folder with a file for each signature; I do
> this because I have lost all my signatures due to glitches in the mail app.
>
> I would like to manage my signatures via the Terminal window as I am a former
> Bell Labs employee and am very comfortable in a shell environment.
>
>
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