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Stationary or signiture in Thunderbird

Discussion in 'Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey' started by jgielow, 2009/03/06.

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    jgielow

    jgielow Inactive Thread Starter

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    I just switched over to Thunderbird and cannot find any thing on creating a standard stationary for my mail. I need to have my name, company and contact info at the bottom of my mail and unlike Outlook which I loved and hated cannot find a way to do this. Has any one found a add on for this or a way to make it work?
     
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    Signtures in Thunderbird

    Here's a link for instructions on how to create signatures in Thunderbird:

    Signatures

    A bit tedious but it will work.:)
     
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    jgielow, As JohnB indicated the link he provided will get you there but, may be a little more then you care to digest.

    I will suggest you review a thread started by suzette on April 6, 2007 which asked the same question and there were several postings and suggestions on this subject. A few of which where my own.

    Here is something like what I said then:.............

    The use of a signature file for Thunderbird is already incorporated into Thunderbird and no addons or other devices are necessary.

    First task is to take note pad or any other text editor and create yourself a signature file. The signature file then gets attached to the bottom of your messages by selecting "View settings for this account" in Thunderbird which will bring up the window shown here:.. http://www.raysmyth.net/sig-01.jpg

    Check the box and choose the signature file as shown on the image.

    A plain simple TXT file will work but, it sounds like your may want to enhance your signature a little so, I recommend you create yourself an HTML file using Notepad and you do this by adding the code and saving the file with an HTML extension rather then a TXT extension.

    To get you started with a simple HTML file, Copy the below text into NotePad or other TEXT Editor and save the file to any folder you choose but, know the path so you can browse to the file after you save it.

    Name the file as you like but, make sure you save the file with the extension of .html A file name might look like this:...... sig-01.html

    The following is about as simple as you can get and do the font color, size and style. The b makes it BOLD and i makes Italics

    The /b - /i and /font on the end turns off bold italics and the font. If you don't want bold or italics just leave it out of the code.

    Now there are 10 zillion color codes and they use 6 characters, the ff0000 is red -- 0000ff is blue --- six zeros is black. A few of the color numbers available for use may be reviewed at:.. http://www.raysmyth.net/htmlhelp/2-by-num.html

    Note in the code the font size can go either + or -, a +0 is about normal and a + will increase and a - will reduce the size based on the number.

    A quick look at font sizes is available here:.. http://www.raysmyth.net/htmlhelp/5-fonts.html

    ----------------- Below is the code ----------------
    <html>
    <body>

    <font color= "#ff0000" size= "+2" face= "arial "><b><i> jgielow </b></i></font>

    </body>
    </html>
    ---------------- End of Code ----------------------

    I might add that in addition to TXT and HTML that a JPEG or other image formats can also be used as a signature file.

    To create a two Line Signature file insert a <br> or a <p> at the end of the code line after the </font> - "br" is a line break - a "p" is a new paragraph.

    Perhaps you can see, the <code> turns on something and the </code> turns it off. Frankly, there is just not much to simple HTML coding.

    You may want to review the thread of April 6, 2007 started by Suzette as additional coding and comments were discussed.

    Good Luck and let us know how you make out, Ray
     
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    jgielow

    jgielow Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks

    Thanks for both of the replys. I was able to add the signature file with a little bit of a issue. I used JohnB's approach first and used my old card (which had text and a logo)which I copied and pasted to a word document and then used it as the signature target.
    After I read the old chiefs approach I went back and tried to save one as a html file and when i specified it as the target it turned my signiture into this,
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    ÃÃࡱá

    I went back and specified the old saved file as the new target and still got the same result. I tried deleting the file and making a new one, saved in a word format like i di dthe first time that worked but kept getting the same result.

    I finally went to word pad and just put in my text with no logo and used it as the target and it worked fine. I am baffled why I cannot get it to work with my first card again. I have tried 10 different times to making new files and they still come up with the above signiture. any ideas?????
     
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    You might note that I said use NOTEPAD or a TEXT Editor meaning you can't use WORD or any other program that saves files into their own format assuming you did save to the WORD Format.

    When WORD as does most other word processor programs saves a file it also stores in that same file the margin settings, footer & header settings, and any other text enhancements made with in the document being saved.

    WORD has to do this so it will know what margins and enhancements to show next time the file is loaded into WORD

    That is why most word processor programs can not use or load each others files.

    Note Pad or other simple plain Text Editors do not save anything into the file except the characters or numbers being shown on the screen.

    I don't want to get too far into this because I done forgot a lot I used to know about ASCII. but, remember a computer usually deals in numbers and not letters or characters.

    The "America Standard Code for Information Interchange" was established so computers could talk to one another. For example the computer uses the number 65 to display an uppercase "A" on the screen. A lower case "a" is the number 97. Upper B is #66 Upper C is #67 so on and so forth.

    If I recall correctly, there were 255 numbers set aside to represent letters, characters, numbers and symbols,

    When we say use NOTEPAD or a simple plain TEXT Editor what we really mean is use a word processor that saves it's file into the ASCII format so any and all computers and programs such as Thunderbird can read the file.

    An ASCII format does not save any of the margins or text enhancements or anything like that. It saves just the information displayed on the screen and does so using the ASCII format which is only numbers.

    A google search for "ASCII codes" will find explanations much better then I can deliver.

    Bottom Line, Thunderbird can not read WORD files because the file also contains a bunch of junk info from the program WORD.

    Thunderbird can read a TXT file from NOTE PAD because it has nothing in it but, the ASCII codes.

    Thunderbird has also been programed to read HTML code so, If you want to enhance the TEXT for your signature file then use the HTML coding as previously described.

    I expect Outlook Express could read your signature File from WORD because both are Microsoft Programs and compatible with each other.

    I also see you said you saved a file from WORD into an HTML format and it did not work either. Well, you can not do that either because WORD also adds it's own JUNK Info to the HTML file.

    Same applies to WORD PAD unless you save to a TEXT format as you can also do in WORD.

    Hope this explanation clears things up. If not I will try again -- Ray
     
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