Setting Up Signatures

The account settings such as "Default Signature" can be changed by clicking on the pencil with dots ()
Preview each signature in the signature view.
Checking "Preview Signature" allows you to see the signature with live data when an account is selected.
Customize signature items, including managing quotation and setting iTunes tokens.

Edit Signatures

To edit a signature, select the signature and double-click, or click the edit icon (

).

The edit window provides a set of tokens that can be incorporated into any signature.

When the signature is used, the token will be replaced with the relevant content to provide a customized signature for each email.

Tokens can be added to the signature by dragging them into the signature window.

Simple Tokens:

User Name: The "Full Name" field in the Accounts definition or defined in the SigPro account settings for individual email addresses.

Account Description: The "description" field in the Accounts definition

Email: Email Address as defined in the currently selected mail account

Obscured Email: The "Email Address" field in the Accounts definition translated into a format that most bots will not use to create spam lists, i.e. "sigpro dot support at smallcubed dot com" for "sigpro.support@smallcubed.com"

Content Tokens:

URL: Provide a URL and a description to add a link into your signature

Image: Provide a URL to an image to include the image in your signature. You can enter a web based URL to the image or a base64 data URL.

URL w/Image Provide a URL to an image, and a URL for a link to have a linked image in your signature

Blog Entry: Add the RSS feed for a blog to have the last post of that blog appear in your signatur

Script: Create a script to insert content into your signature.

Default Signatures and Aliases

Account list
The account settings such as "Default Signature" can be changed by clicking on the pencil with dots ()
Email addresses for the account: both the default email address and any available aliases
Set Default Signature for each email and for message types

Aliases are added to accounts in the "Accounts" tab of Mail's preferences. The aliases appear in the small box in the "Account Setting" when the account for the alias is selected.

To set a default signature for an email address, select the address, then from the dropdown menu on the right (#3 above), select the desired default signature for each type of message.

To have all aliases use the same default signature check: **"Use same signature for all email addresses"**.

Setting the Signature Location

In MailMaven, whether the signature appears above or below the quotes text in Replys as Forwards is set in the default message template, in Settings -> Compose -> Templates. Move the Signature Location token to where you want the signature to appear in the Template for Reply and the Template for Forwards.

Random Quotations

The quotes tokens can be used to insert the "Quotation", "Quote Author", and the "Quote Citation" into a signature. Each token can be formatted separately as desired. The tokens will be filled in from the content of your "Random Quotes File".

Quotes

Quotation: The quotation
Quote Author: The author of the quotation
Quote Citation: Where the quote was taken from

Random Quotes File

In the Signature sidebar there is the “Quotes" section for selecting a "Random Quotes” file to import for use with your signatures.

File Format

The "Ramdom Quote" files can now be created as a json files(filename.json) with the structure:

 {
    "name": "Category Name",
    "description": "Category Description",
    "quotes": [
      {
        "q": "The Quotation",
        "a": "The Author",
        "c": "A Citation"
      }

    ]
}

The above format indicates the full range of options in the Signature json, however a simplified version like the one below will also work.

{
  "quotes": [
      {
      "q": "My first sig"
      },
      {
      "q": "A second sig"
      },
      {
      "q": "And here's a third one"
      },
      {
      "q": "Even a fourthy"
      }
    ]
}

Quotes within a Quote

Escaped double-quotes can be used in "q:", "a:" or "c:" entries to include the quote markes within the text.

For example:

{
  "quotes": [
      {
      "q": "This quotation uses escaped \"double\" quotes."
      },
      {
      "q": "There are \"10\" types of people in the world: Those that undersatand
      binary and those that don't."
      }
    ]
}

The above quotes will appear in a sig as:

Basic HTML

In the quotations section, basic HTML format can be used:
 to bold
 to italizie
 to underline
 to add a line-breaks
or more complicated inline styling in HTML such as 

Note that you should only use 'single quotes' in the span style.

Sample with HTML formatting

{
  "name": "Quotes with HTML",
  "quotes": [
      {
        "q": "This is in <em>italics</em>. While I am <strong>bold</strong>.
        <u>Underline Me</u>.<br/>Put me on a new line.: <br/>Make some of these 
        words <span style='color:#812bb8; font-weight:bold; font-size:2em;'>large 
        and purple</span>",
        "a": "Typist",
        "c": "Typing Practice"
      }
    ]
}

Displays as:

iTunes Integration

The "iTunes" settings can be used to let people know what you are listening to in Apple Music. ### **iTunes Tokens:** iTunes Song: The currently playing song Music. iTunes Album: The album of the currently playing song iTunes Artist: The artist of the currently playing song iTunes Status: The current status of Apple Music (see below) iTunes Summary: The summary as set in the iTunes window

The iTunes tokens iTunes Song, iTunes Album, iTunes Artist and iTunes Status can be dragged into any signatures. However, they will only have information if Music is playing. Another way to display Music infromation is to use the iTunes Summary in your signature. The iTunes Summary will display the content of the status signatures as setup in the iTunes signature window. You can have a different signature display depending on whether Music is: playing, paused, open but not playing, or not open.

Using Scripts

The script token allows scripts to be used to pull content into a signature. This is an advanced feature for users who are comfortable with script writing.

When the script token is dragged into a signature it provides a Finder window to select the scripts. A second window then appears to provide arguments and set whether to use <pre> tags.

Arguments are passed as a simple list separated by spaces. Currently no parsing is done to handle values with spaces in them.

The <pre> tags are used to insert line brakes in the script output. When they are present a   tag is placed at the end of existing signature content and replaces any line break in the script's returned data.

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