Apple Mail Signature Image Mac We All

When you open Mail again or quit and restart it youll find your new signature in the place where you created that placeholder signature.

Apple Mail Signature Image Mac We All

Screengrab: Cult of Mac We all like our email signatures to look fantastic.

Apple Mail has let you make your special mark with an HTML-style email signature since OS X Lion.

The process of setting up an HTML signature in Apple Mail has only gotten more complex over the years, unfortunately.

Now it takes a bit of patience and a sturdy sense of adventure, but its not too difficult.

If you want to create your own HTML signature for Apples Mail app on OS X Yosemite, keep reading.

How to create an HTML signature for Apple Mail Click here to create a new HTML signature placeholder.

Screengrab: Cult of Mac Create a placeholder Apple Mail signature First up, you need to launch Apple Mail.

Choose Preferences, then click on the Signatures tab at the top right of the Preferences window.

Click on the button underneath that center pane to create a new signature.

You can leave it as is, since youll be swapping it out with your HTML signature later.

Dont use Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWYG code editor, as it will tend to add excess code you dont want.

Your code will need inline CSS and should only have basic HTML stuff like divs, images, links and the like.

Feel free to modify it to suit your own needs, or create your own.

Rob LeFebvre. Culture Editor.

Cult of Mac.com (408) 320-8874 roblefcultofmac.com roblef This is the file you need.

Screengrab: Cult of Mac Replace the placeholder with your HTML signature Now you need to find your placeholder signature, which is hidden in your Library folder.

In the Finder, click on the Go menu, and hold the Option key down to see the Library folder.

Choose that Library folder, and navigate to one of the following folders within.

If youre using iCloud, go to LibraryMobile DocumentscomapplemailDataMailDataSignatures If not using iCloud, head to LibraryMailV2MailDataSignatures This will be easier to find the folder you need if you enable List view in the Finder ( View, As List, or Command-2).

You can also just hit Command-G in the Finder and paste the above file paths in.

Open this file in your text editor (if you use TextEdit, be sure to set the Open and Save preferences to Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text) and replace everything below the Mime-Version line with the HTML code you created above.

Screengrab: Cult of Mac If youre using iCloud, dont do this next step.

However, if youre not using iCloud to sync your email (meaning you found your signature file in the second file path above), youll need to Lock your file.