Comments on: Creating an E-Mail Signature in Thunderbird

By: TE

TE — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:34:57 +0000

Hi Emma

You need to add an HTML break tag to the end of each line in your signature.

That is the same as a carriage return in HTML. It will create a new line. Without a break all of your signature text will be on one line.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 09:31:39 +0000

Thanks so much TE I now have a signature in colour and using a dif font…….only problem is, it is all on the same line!!!!!!!!
Can you help me please

By: Hakon

Hakon — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:47:59 +0000

I too had some difficulties with the signature and image in this.
First of all, i found ound this method works great: Writing signature text as a new mail, setting the colours and size that you wants, insert an image (if you want to), and then SAVE AS A HTML file. Afterwords, set TB to use this file as signature.
This works great, but then the problem occured with redirecting an replying to messages. The image in my signature just wouldn’t attach.
So i placed a copy of the image (that used to be on the server station at my workplace), on a local folder at my computer.
Suddenly, problems solved.
Don’t ask me why!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:13:13 +0000

figured it out. I guess assigning CSS to the body tag is the problem. I assigned the colors to the individual classes instead and it’s fine.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:06:02 +0000

Having trouble with CSS in my signature. I have the body text set to a dark blue (I’ve also tried other colors) and it continues to come in gray. I have another signature I’ve been using for a few years that works fine. Anyone else have this issue?

By: Doogie

Doogie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:42:02 +0000

Hi Spencer

There is no way to style a font in the signature without using HTML or CSS. Most e-mail clients act like a browser and there isn’t any way to style a font on a web page without using HTML or CSS.

The answer to the third question depends upon the e-mail client. Some people do set up their e-mail client as “text only”. If you are not certain, send the message as text.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:43:56 +0000

Firstly, Thunderbird rocks.
Secondly, is there a way to add a specify the font of the signature without using html?
Thirdly, if html is used and a the recipent doesn’t recognise html – what will they see? Will they see the tags, or just the text.

Thanks,
Spencer.

By: Nick Kotarski

Nick Kotarski — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:29:40 +0000

For what it’s worth I found a solution for people who don’t like the “– ” that Thunderbird inserts before signatures.

“I got curious about this so had a look around. For version 2.0.0.18 the two dashes are in the main thunderbird.exe file. They can be found by these steps:

1. Close thunderbird
2. Open thunderbird.exe in a text editor (smart to make a backup first) and search for ‘moz-signature’ (without the quotes).
3. The first instance found will be in the string ”. The two dashes are just to the left of that string.

Note: If you remove the two dashes, you will need to replace each with an empty space for thunderbird.exe to still work.”

You need a proper HEX editor to do this.

Nick

By: Salman

Salman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:55:30 +0000

a big thanks to u TE, your post of January 18 2008 solved my problem, hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By: Doogie

Doogie — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:10:21 +0000

Hi Dave

You might not be able to change the background for the entire signature, but you should be able to create a box around the signature and change the background for the box.

Make sure that you save the signature file using the .html extension. CSS will not work unless it is an HTML file.

Try this:

Your signature text goes here