Custom Email Signature For Mac Mail
Go into mail preferences Click on the the signatures tab select the account you want to have the signature Click on the drop menu at the bottom of the window and select the signature to always use. If you use iCloud Drive, your signatures are available on your other Mac computers that have iCloud Drive turned on and Mail selected in iCloud Drive options. See Use iCloud Drive to store documents. If you need to send a signed PDF document, you can use Markup in Mail to create a handwritten signature and add it to the document.
Adding any HTML code directly into your Apply mail signature is a bit tricky. However, we can use some tricks to add the Nicereply CSAT. Follow our guide to create perfect HTML signature in Apple mail.
Create a new signature
Let’s go to Mail > Preferences > Signatures and click “+” button. Set e.g. “Nicereply” name to your signature and add just your full name to your new email signature. Our sample email signature now looks like this:
At this point, we need to close Preferences and quit Mail application.
Find your mail signature file
You know Apple, they love playing hide & seek, so we have to find your new signature file hidden in your Library folder. Open the Finder, click on the Go menu, and hold the Alt/Option key down. You will see the “Library” folder. Choose that Library folder and navigate to one of the following folders:
- If you’re using iCloud, go to ~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~mail/Data/MailData/Signatures/
- If not using iCloud, head to ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures/ or ~/Library/Mail/V3/MailData/Signatures/ if you are using El Capitan already
In the Signatures folder you should easily recognise your signature file by the Date Modified:
Edit HTML signature in Apple mail
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Right click on the signature file Open with > Other… and choose TextEdit application. Take a deep breath and don’t worry. You don’t need to understand this “Chinese soup”. I will guide you through it step-by-step.
Your signature file will open in TextEdit and should look similar to mine:
Correct the signature headers
If the first line of your signature file does not contain ” 7bit”, please change the first line to:
If you’d like to use non-english (non-ASCII) characters, make sure your 3rd line is set to ” utf-8″ too:
Replace the signature body code
Let’s replace the mess of characters with some nice HTML code. Replace the rest of the signature code, starting on the line #7 with with “<body”, by this basic HTML template:
Place the Nicereply CSAT in signature
Now login to Nicereply and head up to Ratings(CSAT) > Rating Page Settings > Rating Link, copy your CSAT code and paste it into your mail signature (replace the comment) and save the file. The source code of your signature should now be similar to this one:
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And in an email it would appear like this:
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Edit the signature template details
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These last two pictures will help you understand the details of the HTMl template we’ve used. At this point you can edit the template code:
- Edit the “How nice was my reply?” question,
- Replace “Your Name” placeholder with your real name,
- Replace “your.email@example.com” with your real email – twice!,
- Edit/delete the phone number and,
- Edit/delete the website URL “http://www.example.com” and link text “example.com”
Of course, you may delete the whole second block <p>…</p> and make some other magic with the HTML signature in Apple mail.
Save and lock mail signature file
When you are finished, Save the mail signature file and lock the file (otherwise, Apple mail will destroy everything you‘ve done). Click on the arrow in the header bezel of TextEdit and lock the mail signature file:
Congratulations! You have now become an Apple Mail Signature Guru.
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Close the TextEdit window, open Apple mail and check your signature in Mail > Preferences. The images may be missing in Preferences, but don’t worry- try to send an email to yourself or a colleague. Everything should be fine in a real email message:
PS: If you would like to edit your new HTML signature in Apple mail you should:
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- Quit Apple Mail,
- open the mail signature file with TextEdit from the Library folder,
- unlock the file,
- make changes to the code,
- save, lock and close the file