Comments on: Creating an E-Mail Signature in Thunderbird

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

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:14:28 +0000

I’m looking for ways to highlight my html signature with either a box around my signature or just change the background of my signature (not the whole e-mail) to off-white.

I’ve had some success with the box approach but sometimes the box shows up shifted with respect to the signature.

I prefer to just change the background color of my signature to off-white but I can’t figure out how to do it.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks ahead of time!!!

By: Doogie

Doogie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:51:10 +0000

Hi Michelle

Notepad is free and comes with every version of Windows. It is in the Accessories section of your program menu. You could use Word, but you have to make sure that you save the file as a text file. If you do not save the signature as a text file, the file will have embedded characters, which can do strange things. If you do not use Windows, check your operating system. Every operating system comes with at least one pure text editor.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:29:14 +0000

Hi
I do not have notepad to save my signiture to. Can you advise any other way to add signiture or do you possibly know how to get notepad? Is this a free program?
thanks!
Michelle