How to attach a signature to an outgoing SeaMonkey 2 Mail & Newsgroups e-mail.
Yes, this is lengthy, but I've been Googling for the last 2 hours and couldn't
find exactly what I wanted, so I figured it out by myself. So, maybe this will
help someone.
(Note for the below text, IE call bookmarks 'Favorites, and SeaMonkey
calls then 'Bookmarks, in case you haven't run into this before.)
Also note that having a Signature (and if you're familar with word
processing programs), a Signature is very similar to a 'macro', which
is automatically attaching something to a document without having to
type it in everytime, such as a letterhead, contact phone numbers
or fax numbers, etc.
1) Open Seamonkey 2.
2) Open Mail & Newsgroups by :
a) Clicking on the tiny Mail & Newsgroups icon on bottom left
of the browser,
b) At the top menu, click Window then Mail & Newsgroups,
c) Press the Control button (Ctrl) and number 2 key at
the same time. (Ctrl + 2)
3) When the Mail & Newsgroups window opens,
4) Click on the top level account name (left pane of the window) (I sometimes
use a couple but I'm just using 1 right now, and I've named it (during
the setup of mail) 'Windstream Mail' at the initial setup of Mail &
Newsgroups, the first time you ever open it where it asks for your desired
user name, your POP3 servers, etc.
However, you can easily change the name of it later, if you want.
5) So, click on the top level account (they are in bold letters) and then
click on (in the right pane of the window) View settings for this account.
6) The Account Settings windows opens.
7) Here you can change all sorts of your account settings, but we're only
worried about our Signature for right now. These are changed in the areas
that say:
a) Signature text, Use HTML (or not).
You can type your desired Signature right here in text, but you
can also use HTML code in this box, if you want to get fancy
with it. :)
b) Or, alternatively, you can use text file, (like a file created
in Notepad) all the text and/or HTML, links to other sites, a small
picture or logo, etc.
c) To use the text and/or code that you created in a text file, put a
checkmark by Attach the signature from a file instead:
d) After that, all you have to do is click the Choose... button and
navigate to where your signature file that you made is located.
I put mine in the SeaMonkey folder itself, but you can put it anywhere at all.
I'm using Windows 7 with Seamonkey 2.0.12 (just SeaMonkey 2 , really), so where
I put mine is here ( > means next step)
Start button>User name at top right>AppData>Roaming>Mozilla>SeaMonkey>Profiles>
a folder that begins with '8a16g8mg' .default
To simplify, it's the only folder here and it ends with '.default', what it
begins with is different for everybody.
Now you're in your SeaMonkey profile folder where your address book, history,
bookmarks, etc. are located.
It just seems to me that it's also a good place to put my Signature file.
However, it DEFINITELY won't hurt if you keep a copy of it somewhere else.
I always (and never fail to do so) get copies from this folder:
a) address.mab - (IMPORTANT) all your address book, with all your
friends, family, work, etc. addresses you've accumulated is kept.
b) bookmarks.html (ABSOLUTELY essential) (mine has over 200 sites
and/or
particular pages of a site, pictures or files.)
c) history.mab (OPTIONAL, in my opinion) which is a history of where
all you've visited. I personally don't care about this. I never
use my history to go back to places I've been; I use my Bookmarks,
which is probably why it's monstrous, :)
d) After you've saved these files to a safe place, you may want to go
back here (SeaMonkey profile folder) periodically to get the fresher
versions of these files.
e) If you've had a disaster of some sort and have to completely
re-install SeaMonkey, just drag and drop these files back into your
new SeaMonkey folder or Import them.
i) bookmark.html - For me, the easiest way to 'import' (which
technically
is done by clicking the File button on the top of the browser
window,
then select 'Import and Export... then go through the steps as what
you want import etc.).
ii) I simply copy my previously saved files (hopefully you have saved
the
files I mentioned above because if not, you have nothing to copy
here
or Import (except maybe your Internet Explorer Favorites.) into the
SeaMonkey profile folder (same location you navigated to before)
then close SeaMonkey and re-open.
iii) Voila, You're set!
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