Here’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:

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:

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.

Tags: Address Book, Apple Mail, contact information, hyperlink, mail.app, signature, tip, vcard

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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?

Tags: alias, different email contexts, email, mail, mail.app, signature

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