Posts Tagged ‘signature’

Adding a vcard to a Mail.app signature

Monday, February 19th, 2007

VcardimageHere’s is a simple tip that was new to me.

There are two ways to add a vCard with your contact information to a Mail.app signature.

An old post on macOSXHints details how to add it as a hyperlink to a remotely-stored vCard file, so that recipients can download it into their Address Books easily.

The end result is nice and clean and saves bandwidth:

Sig Hyperlink

If you don’t give two figs about bandwidth, you can simply export your card from Address Book.

Then drag it onto a signature in the Signature pane of Mail’s preferences, and your vCard goes out with every signed email:

Sigvcard

Of course, it is possible to share more information than you mean to or more than your recipients want. It might be a good idea to create a special Address Book card for this before exporting it.

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Alex King on email signatures

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Alex King ponders the complexities of constructing an email signature that is both comprehensive and easily readable.

Mail.app doesn’t allow you to specify a particular sig for each email address alias associated with the one account. (Find out how to run multiple email addresses from one account in Mail).

Alex’s solution involves creating a “mash-up” signature that embraces all your different email contexts.

But should it be wide or tall? Cryptic or fulsome?

I disagree with his instinct for “going wide”. Do you?

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