Mac Tricks

How to Configure the Apple Mail with HTML Signature

• create a signature with some text (“going to edit this signature”) to identify later - Apple mail -> Mail -> Preferences -> Signatures -> Select the Email account and create the signature.
• Now quit the Apple Mail (by right clicking on the icon and pressing quit)
• Now go to one of the following directories depending on the version
  • ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures
  • ~/Library/Mail/V3/MailData/Signatures
• Now identify the signature (*.mailsignature) with the included text in step one by opening it is TextWrangler (otherwise cd to the above folder and run the following command)
  • open -a *.mailsignature
• Replace the bottom part of the signature with your html code and save the file.
• Now right click on the file and click “Get Info” and tick the “Locked”
• Now open the Apple Mail and you will see the new signature when you compose a new email.