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Setup your first HTML signature

Mailplane 2.1: Learn how to create your first HTML signature.

Important: Requires Mailplane 2.1

Prerequisites

The Gmail signature lab features such as "Random signature," or "Signature Tweaks" are not compatible with the HTML signatures. To disable the signature lab features, follow these steps:

Go to Gmail > Settings > Labs and search for "Signature".
Disable the signature lab feature
Press the Save Changes button.

Mailplane's HTML signatures only work in Rich Text mode, if you prefer plain text messages this feature won't work.

To enable HTML signatures, select the Mailplane > Preferences menu item to open Preferences. Then click the Accounts icon:

Click the desired account in the account list. Normally, it's the foreground account, which is shown in bold letters.
Select the Signatures tab
Enable the Enable Signatures setting.
Enter your signature into the "Rich Text Signature" field.

Need some HTML examples?

Not sure how to create the HTML code? You can find some signature examples online:

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Posted by Thomas (11/23 at 09:40 PM)

Signatures work well, except I have my default account set to a POP3 account. Since I can’t add this POP3 account in MailPlains settings, it doesn’t show my signature.

Is there a way to set a default one for all messages, regardless of account?

Posted by Ruben (11/24 at 08:11 AM)

Hi Thomas,
If you can add the POP3 email address to your Gmail > Settings > “Accounts and Import” > “Send Mail as” you can also define signatures for this account:

1) Add the account to the Gmail “Send mail as” section
2) Add a Mailplane signature and make sure the email address matches
3) Compose a new message and select the (POP3) email address in the from field—> Mailplane inserts the right signature.

Hope this helps.
Ruben

Posted by Thomas (11/24 at 05:13 PM)

Yep, that did it. Thanks!! I didn’t realize I could add more than one email for each signature.

Posted by Carlos (12/04 at 10:24 PM)

Thanks for this post!

How can I make the signature show up automatically in every new message? Right now i need to manually insert it each time through the Mail/Insert/Signature menu.

Posted by Ruben (12/09 at 11:32 AM)

Hi Carlos,
1) Please make sure the “Default” checkbox before the signature is checked.
2) Double check the signature’s “Email Address”. It must exactly match the “from” address in your message.
Hope this helps.
Ruben

Posted by Claude Giguère (12/13 at 02:15 PM)

Hi Ruben

Thank you for your newsletter. Please advise me on putting up a signature with a photo. The example given on the link is for someone using Firefox; I use Safari. Is it possible to have a signature with photo using Safari? I’m thinking of something like yours in the above example.

Thanks

Claude

Posted by Ruben (12/14 at 04:40 PM)

Yes, here’s the how you can do it:
1) Upload the picture you like to include in the signature to a web server (Flick will also work).
2) Setup a signature as detailed above
3) In the signature include a <img src=“URL to uploaded image” alt=“my logo”/> tag
4) Save and use signature

The HTML example by the Firefox user works in Mailplane.
Hope this helps.
Ruben