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Cant get my signature to stay on my emails, please help

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I have made my signature and gone through the actions and tools etc and I manage to get it to appear on my email for the first couple of emails I send then it mysteriously dissapears. Please help

I have made my signature and gone through the actions and tools etc and I manage to get it to appear on my email for the first couple of emails I send then it mysteriously dissapears. Please help

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what you go back into the account settings and the settings have reverted to no signature. Is that it?

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Thank you for your response. So i go into the settings and add the signature on there by saving it on my desktop then uploading it. I go to send an email and it appears at the bottom on the first email. I go to send a second email and it vanishes?

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re :I have made my signature

Did you create this signature in a new 'Write' message and save as a HTML file in a folder on your desktop?

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It gives me the choice to save in new 'Write' message as a file, draft or template that is all? it must of worked because it transfers over and is there when I send an email. It just then vanishes after I send one email

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In Write message, create the signature. select to save as 'File' a window opens and you choose where to save it. Suggest you create new folder on desktop called 'Signatures' and save it in that folder. I keep mine in a folder called 'TB Signatures' in 'Documents'. Give it a suitable name eg: 'formal sig' or 'informal sig' etc. 'Save as Type' must be 'HTML Files' click on 'Save'

Please confirm this is exactly what you have done.

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This is exactly how I am doing it. Can you talk me through how you save it because maybe I am doing that part wrong

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Right click on mail account and select 'Settings' this opens the 'Account Settings'

select the mail account name select 'attach the signature from a file instead' click on 'choose' button locate the saved file and click on Open Click on OK

Image below as a guide. Please Confirm you have selected as advised. Posting an image would help.

Note : If you want other mail accounts to use that signature, you would need to do it for each mail account.

Please confirm : After clicking on OK to close the account settings window, access it again and confirm the settings have not changed. They have saved correctly.

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Mine sounds like it is a different set up. I click on the right hand corner which is three horizontal small bars that brings up a list of options. I then click options then account settings.The account name is my email address then i click the box that states "attach the signature from a file instead (text,HTML, or image): I then attach the file which I have saved on my desktop as HTMl

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open 'Write' Type signature using Formatting Bar to select font, Font size, Bold and Italic. Typed signature. Save as File (also located under 'File' >'Save as' > 'File' )

New window opens. Choose where to save. I chose 'Documents' > 'TB signatures' folder set filename as: formal-sig.html Save type as: HTML files clicked on 'Save' button

image below shows this.

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re :Mine sounds like it is a different set up. I click on the right hand corner which is three horizontal small bars that brings up a list of options. I then click options then account settings.

Nothing wrong with that method. There's different ways of getting to the same point.

Via 'Menu Bar'

  • 'Tools' > 'Account Settings'

Via 'Mail Toolbar'

  • 'Menu icon' > 'Options' > 'Account Settings'

Via Folder Pane

  • right click on mail account and select: 'Settings'

Or

  • left click on mail account in folder pane
  • then click on 'View settings for this account'


Please confirm the signature html file you selected is still showing in Account Settings - it has not disappeared.

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Q: How many mail accounts do you have ?

Q: If more than one, do they all use that signature html file?

You mention it is ok for a couple of emails you send but then disappears. Q: Are these only new Write messages ? or Q: did you click on 'Reply' or 'Forward' to repond and the signature disappeared? If it was a 'Reply' then perhaps you have not selected the option to include signature in Reply and Forwards.

'Menu icon' > 'Options' > 'Account Settings' select 'Composition & Addressing' for the mail account Select options to include signatures.

I selected:

  • 'Compose messages in html format'
  • 'Automatically quote the original message when replying'
  • then 'start my reply above the quote'
  • and place signature 'below my reply above the quote'
  • 'Include signature for replies'
  • 'Include signature for forwards'

click on OK See example of my settings in image below.