A poster on macOSXHints offers a simple script that will create a new message in Mail.app and insert a random “quote of the day” from www.codingtheweb.com’s web service.

Although a comment on the site suggests that it doesn’t work, it worked fine for me.

Compile the script in Mac OS X’s script editor, editing it to add your own sig info if so desired and save it off into your ~/Library/Scripts folder.

When you open your script menu in the menubar (I’m using the excellent FastScripts Lite in this screenshot), it’s there waiting for you:

Run it and the new message appears complete with quote:

Very nice if you like that sort of thing.signatures, random, applescript, mail.app, apple mail, tips

Martin Koistinen has posted some tips on how to manage signatures in Thunderbird.

He offers some code for a CSS signature. It follows the same principles as CCS signatures for Mail.app posted here in the past, but with all the bells and whistles you could ever want.

It won’t appeal to everyone, but people who have made their peace with HTML in email will be delighted at how comprehensive the code is:

Not content with that, he has also created a randomiser for Thunderbird sigs. The shell script he provides will insert a tag line from a user-created list into this CSS signature or any HTML signature file. Full instructions in the post make it easy to craft your own. Nice.thunderbird, signatures, random, CSS, tips, email, not apple mail