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[10] Submitted by: miek on Thursday 2nd June 2005 at 06:04 -0400

signatures are stored in your user prefs.
these are stored in thunderbird at:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\.default\prefs.js
prob this on *nix:
~/.Thunderbird/Profiles/.default/prefs.js

for firefox it's somethingn similar.

if you edit this file, you gotta do it when Thunderbird is closed, or else when it shuitsdown it'll wipe the file again.

in your preferences there will be two keys that are the stored signatures.

user_pref("signature.names", "email`default`test");
user_pref("signature.signatures", "michaelj@xxx.com`mike\nspecial.michael@gmail.com`test");

this is two arrays one of the names, one of the signatures, seperated by the character [`]

save these lines somewhere, if you need to restore pu tthem back in.

i'll try to add some sort of export function for a future release.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[11] Submitted by: Harvester on Thursday 2nd June 2005 at 10:39 -0400

Thanks a lot! For now I simply made a backup of prefs.js.

Some more suggestions:

1.

>> If I type "th" and then hit a shifted Enter, the entire phase is placed.

This would be a great feature. I also would like to see something like "ctrl+1" -> paste sig 1, "ctrl+2" -> paste sig 2 etc.
btw: What are the shortcuts for "default sig" and "random sig" Mike.at.inksite.com mentioned?

2.
BBCode ( ) has a feature I'd looove to see in this extension:
variables ( i.e.: _clipboard_ / _value_ / _date_ ).
Unfortunately BBCode only supports 10 Signatures, but let me give an example for a nice sig with variables:
If I have an URL in the clipboard and highlight some text with my mouse and use the following sig:
[url=_clipboard_]_value_[/url]

BBcode transforms the highlighted text into the following:
[url= text[/url]

which is a fine way to make text links in a forum.
Unfortunately BBCode doesn't support shortcuts either. It would be even better if I'd just have to hit "ctrl+1" to use the sig above rather than to search the appropriate sig in some submenus of my context menu.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050516 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2)

[12] Submitted by: Harvester on Thursday 2nd June 2005 at 10:46 -0400

Uh. Your commentsystem ate my post.
Let me try it again:

BBcode transforms the highlighted text into the following:
[url=h t t p : / / w w w. randomsitexyz . c o m]text[/url]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050516 Firefox/1.0.4 (MOOX M2)

[13] Submitted by: miek on Friday 3rd June 2005 at 06:13 -0400

variables - nice idea i thought of introducing a while ago.
never got round to it. sitting on the back burner

autocomplete is my next big goal, would really love that.
main problem is shortcut key clashes [with tbird and other extensions]

ctrl-1, ctrl-2
this should be possible, but only providing the keys aren't already taken (I know they are in FF)
ctrl-shift-1 might be available.

and current key's
ctrl-shift-r [randon() signature]
ctrl-shift-d [insert signature called 'default']

mike

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

[16] Submitted by: Eric Schechter on Monday 20th June 2005 at 07:16 -0400

It took me a little while to figure out how to
use the program. So I would suggest adding
a couple of sentences to the "about" section
of the program, or to the signature editor, or
somewhere:

Right-click anywhere in the message you're
composing, and "Insert Signature ->" will show
up on the context menu.

Or maybe you could actually copy that screenshot
into some space at the top or bottom of the
signature editor.

Thanks for the program.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[17] Submitted by: miek on Monday 20th June 2005 at 07:24 -0400

aye,
no one ever reads the installation page:

or looks at the screenshots:

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[19] Submitted by: Louis on Tuesday 19th July 2005 at 03:01 -0400

Add a toolbar button than can be used to insert a preselected signature­. It could have a scrolldown list next to it to change that selection.

Louis (darkshado1 at gmail)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[21] Submitted by: Charles Marcus on Friday 2nd September 2005 at 16:24 -0400

First - great extension! Very useful for me, since I wear many hats...

1 thing that would make Signature perfect for me:

Add the ability to assign hotkeys to to one or more sigs, like:

Ctrl-shift-1 = sig1
Ctrl-shift-2 = sig2

etc.

Please!? How much would it cost me? ;)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[22] Submitted by: Tom on Friday 23rd September 2005 at 06:43 -0400

I love the extension, but there's a bug in the Beta (0.4.b3ta).

Problem:
I right-clicked and detected that 50% of all my saved sigs were gone. (no prob, I needed to clean the list anyway)

I also tried the export, import thingy, but it doesn't export or import anything..(nothing happens when I click the buttons)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nb-NO; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

[23] Submitted by: miek on Friday 23rd September 2005 at 07:20 -0400

as for the dissappearing signatures, can you email me directly?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[24] Submitted by: JK on Sunday 25th September 2005 at 09:21 -0400

Great extension, but no longer works in GMAIL. Worked fine at first, but now it no longer appears in the context menu when I'm using GMAIL. All ok with hotmail and yahoo, but not GMAIL.

Cheers,
JK

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7

[25] Submitted by: Thomas Hygum on Tuesday 27th September 2005 at 05:41 -0400

Can I use bbcodes in this extension? I want to include an image in my signatures.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da-DK; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6

[26] Submitted by: miek on Tuesday 27th September 2005 at 06:26 -0400

-- + + GMAIL + + --
i am aware of this, they changed their email box to an iframe when the added html markup, i'll try to add the context menu to the iframe, and the autocomplete check to accept an iframe.

-- + + B B CODE + + --
this extension literally pastes whatever text you have stored/predefined.

if you have stored bbcodes, then you can paste/insert bbcodes.

need more info email me direct

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

[27] Submitted by: Antun on Tuesday 11th October 2005 at 14:19 -0400

I just tried installing Thunderbird 1.5beta2 and it complained that signature would not work on Thunderbird 1.5. Just wanted to make sure that you knew about it.

Awesome plug in though.

-Antun

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[28] Submitted by: miek on Tuesday 11th October 2005 at 17:40 -0400

wasn't aware 1.5 beta2 was out, guess it's like deer park.

I wouldn't think it would work as the version string in the install file willbe wrong.

if you want to hack it so that it works you can try this (no guarentees though)

1) backup
signatures are stored in your user prefs.
these are stored in thunderbird at:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\.default\prefs.js
prob this on *nix:
~/.Thunderbird/Profiles/.default/prefs.js

for firefox it's somethingn similar.

if you edit this file, you gotta do it when Thunderbird is closed, or else when it shuitsdown it'll wipe the file again.

in your preferences there will be two keys that are the stored signatures.

user_pref("signature.names", "email`default`test");
user_pref("signature.signatures", "michaelj@xxx.com`mike\nspecial.michael@gmail.com`test");

this is two arrays one of the names, one of the signatures, seperated by the character [`]

save these lines somewhere, if you need to restore pu tthem back in.

i'll try to add some sort of export function for a future release.

2) download the xpi
unzip
edit install.rdf, change max-version to be 1.5
zip back up and then install

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

[29] Submitted by: looking forward to on Sunday 16th October 2005 at 16:41 -0400

Hi!
I use this plugin very often!
When do you plan to make it compatible with Thunderbird 1/5 (or better yet, with the current Beta2 of Thunderbird 1.5)?!
Thanks!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

[30] Submitted by: miek on Monday 17th October 2005 at 04:38 -0400

dear looking forward to...

i'll support it when it's released (and when i recover my hard drive's recent death).

I think i updated the b3ta version to 1.4, but not sure

in the mean time i'm afraid that you'll have to hack it.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[31] Submitted by: looking forward to on Tuesday 18th October 2005 at 10:08 -0400

thanks for your comment.
I tried to hack it per your instructions but was not successful (it seems Thunderbird still says the extension is not compatible with the updated software).
I am sorry to hear about your hard disk death. I feel your pain! The same happened to me two weeks ago with my 500GB backup HD. Not a pleasant surprise... Hopefully you did not loose valuable data. Good luck!
Thanks again for the extension.
Cheers!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

[32] Submitted by: Crazy on Monday 14th November 2005 at 18:31 -0500

I just installed your extension and I already like it!

But one thing, is it possible to get rid of the statusbar icon?

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[33] Submitted by: miek on Monday 14th November 2005 at 18:37 -0500

sorry no, bit of a bad on my part there.
i'll try to get rid of it in the next one (make it optional) at the minute it's an anchor for the autocomplete part, hence alwyas required.

will see what i can do,
hopefully 1.5 will fix a few bugs, then popups will work as expected.

mike

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[34] Submitted by: Crazy on Monday 14th November 2005 at 19:09 -0500

Alright. Thanks for answering my question so quickly.

Not a big deal, I can live with it.

So, any idea when you will be releasing 1.5?

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[35] Submitted by: miek on Tuesday 15th November 2005 at 04:31 -0500

by 1.5 i mean thunderbird and firefox 1.5, the next release of signature.......

...hmmm

somewhere in the distant future probably. I guess it just depends on how much time i get here and there to work on it.

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[36] Submitted by: Daifne on Wednesday 16th November 2005 at 21:26 -0500

Great extension. Have it in both TB and FF, but am having a problem. The FF version is losing the signatures. Is there a limit to the number of signatures or number of characters total? I have tried replacing the sigs in the prefs.js but they will just disappear after about 15 minutes in the browser. Very odd behavior. This time, half are gone and many of the rest have only the name of the signature left. Also they will occasionally mix themselves up, the sig not matching the name.

Thanks.

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[37] Submitted by: miek on Thursday 17th November 2005 at 05:40 -0500

i've heard of this before, but not reproduced it.
must be something todo with the largs amount of signatures.

I think i will have to break the signatures out into an rdf file or something in the future.

if i have time i'll try to reproduce this soon.

sorry

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[38] Submitted by: Daifne on Thursday 17th November 2005 at 10:34 -0500

Thanks, Miek.

It did seem to start happening after I reached some kind of limit. This last time, I had gotten it stable by adding the new sig manually to prefs.js, but when I tried to add another, it went very bad. I've cleaned that one out, but it's still misbehaving.

Hope that helps.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[39] Submitted by: Marc on Friday 18th November 2005 at 13:37 -0500

Great Extension. I'm looking forward to it working with 1.5 when it finally comes out. Will you make it work with the 1.5RC3 or just wait for the full 1.5?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[40] Submitted by: Cathy Brooks on Friday 18th November 2005 at 14:16 -0500

Thanks for the signature extension ... my question is whether there's a way to set it up so that the signature is automatically generated on my email whenever I open a new draft ... or do I have to insert it every time?

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; Tablet PC 1.7; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

[41] Submitted by: miek on Friday 18th November 2005 at 15:32 -0500

Marc:
email me or download from mozdev.org,
addons mozilla org won't let me update till 1.5 is released.

Cathy:
use the in built functionality in thunderbird.
tools->account, settings for the account, signature.

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[42] Submitted by: Vincent on Friday 18th November 2005 at 23:23 -0500

Hi, great extension. This is what I have been looking for. By the way, are you going to include an editing function so that user can choose the font style, color etc.?

Thanks again.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[43] Submitted by: miek on Saturday 19th November 2005 at 08:48 -0500

i would love to but it's a big cost in time, and that is something i don't have too much of.

so while i intend to do it, don't expect it too soon

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[44] Submitted by: teo on Sunday 27th November 2005 at 08:41 -0500

Do you read my email on gmail from 16.11.2005??

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pl; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[45] Submitted by: S. Hander on Monday 28th November 2005 at 15:14 -0500

Great extension, but needs a little polish. The ability to have HTML signatures would be great and the icons need work It would be great if they could match TBs default theme.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2

[46] Submitted by: Fidel1ty on Thursday 1st December 2005 at 21:54 -0500

Yes!!!! We want HTML signature. 3 beers for the author!!!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[47] Submitted by: Al on Wednesday 14th December 2005 at 23:46 -0500

I guess you already know that there are some problems with gmail. Funny thing, the contextual menu will appear with the signature options correctly in the "To:" and "Subject" fields, but not in the mail body text field.

I guess my config will magically appear below. :)

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[48] Submitted by: mike on Thursday 15th December 2005 at 04:37 -0500

yes,

google's use of an iframe confuses things, it's on my todo list.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[49] Submitted by: Árni on Tuesday 27th December 2005 at 09:58 -0500

i was wondering if you will be adding an option to "stick" a signiture to an email account???
fx. i always have the same signiture for my work email and would love if it was added automaticly when i´m writing an email (different signatures when i switch between the "from" tab...)

thanx for a great extension,
Árni

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[50] Submitted by: birk on Tuesday 27th December 2005 at 19:33 -0500

Is it possible to automatically add a random signature to all new mails with this extension? I have problems with it. :)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; da; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[51] Submitted by: miek on Wednesday 28th December 2005 at 04:47 -0500

automatically adding a signature to an account is supported in thunderbird already.

it goes something like this:
tools->accounts->select account->push button for signature and select signature.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[52] Submitted by: Milton Beychok on Wednesday 28th December 2005 at 16:47 -0500

Just installed your Signature extension for Thunderbird and it works very, very well. Thanks very much!! Just two questions:

(1) Do you expect to modify it at some time so that HTML formatting can be used when creating a signature?

(2) I haven't been able to figure out how the random signature feature works? Can you wxplain what it is used for and how to do it?

Milt Beychok

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[53] Submitted by: mike on Thursday 29th December 2005 at 04:25 -0500

1) yes (but i have been saying that for about a year now)

2) if you have more than one signature it will choose one at random.
ctrl-shift-r
or select from menu

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[54] Submitted by: jan on Friday 13th January 2006 at 11:02 -0500

Like the extensions! I use it in TB and have two suggestions:

1) would it be possible to add a "Sign" button to the compose window? I tend to forget ctrl-shift-d/I am lazy...

2) Officially signatures start with -- \n
(dash-dash-space-newline). Could this be added by default? I.e. add -- upon signing at beginning of signature. Maybe with option to turn on/off.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

[55] Submitted by: Mowag on Wednesday 8th February 2006 at 22:32 -0500

Can this extension be used in Seamonkey 1.0?

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[56] Submitted by: miek on Monday 13th February 2006 at 06:46 -0500

seamonkey: no, sorry. I've never tried to get this working. fair amount of changes required.

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[57] Submitted by: Boobounder on Tuesday 14th February 2006 at 12:08 -0500

I am trying to use this in Typepad.

It works in the address bar of the browser, and the title and keywords boxes within Typepad - but it does not work in either of the Post boxes.

Any ideas?

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[58] Submitted by: miek on Wednesday 15th February 2006 at 04:28 -0500

i assume typepad is showing similar problems to gmail and the box in which it is saying has focus is an iframe instead of a textbox.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[59] Submitted by: cbspencer on Thursday 16th February 2006 at 13:07 -0500

Great extenstion! I've been looking for something like this for a looong time.

Support for HTML sigs would be greatly appreciated.

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[60] Submitted by: baz on Friday 24th February 2006 at 08:01 -0500

hate the formatting, if I make a word document I cant get it to look like it in thunderbird. AM I doing something wrong here???

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[61] Submitted by: miek on Friday 24th February 2006 at 08:29 -0500

baz, try the forums at

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[62] Submitted by: Venik on Tuesday 28th February 2006 at 18:11 -0500

If all it can do is paste a simple ASCII text signature, it is useless. I tried to import a signature file, but it complained....

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[63] Submitted by: miek on Tuesday 28th February 2006 at 18:40 -0500

thanks for that wonderfully descriptive and constructive feedback

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[64] Submitted by: Bruce Hopkins on Friday 3rd March 2006 at 08:36 -0500

When I right click, only about 1 time in ten do "Random... and Edit... appear in the menu. I haven't connected their reappearance to anything except closing the Compose window and reopening it.

Great concept! Thanks.

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[65] Submitted by: Le Béret Gascon on Saturday 4th March 2006 at 07:32 -0500

I just want to thank you for this Extension. It is simply über!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[66] Submitted by: Tatsfield on Sunday 5th March 2006 at 11:43 -0500

A necessary Extension for me. I would like to be able to have a default signature appear automatically in drafts and I would like to be able to attribute a particular font to the signature, Both these features are available in MS Outlook.

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[67] Submitted by: DJRose on Monday 6th March 2006 at 20:11 -0500

Thank you so much for this replacement for TagZilla, which currently does not work with Thunderbird 1.5. I like it better than the others recommended at

Signature Switch puts in the usual two hyphens before the signature. Quicktext adds an extra toolbar, which reduces the composition area.

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[68] Submitted by: Staronova on Tuesday 7th March 2006 at 12:31 -0500

Disabled this extension because of it conflicts with other extensions. A general problem Firefox needs to address is letting the user see and configure keyboard shortcuts.

Not sure what Ctl-SPACE does except make Firefox go slow for a while. It conflicts with something else, but I can't tell what.

Alt-/, is a nice choice -- takes me back to the days of dabbrev-expand in Emacs. But that keystroke is already owned by the AI Roboform toolbar. Flashpaste is a freeware futility I use on Windoze that does something similar to the Signature extension, so for me it was an easy choice to ditch Signature.

Signature would benefit from alternate means of activation, e.g., context menu item, left-click on the status bar icon. Until there's a general solution in Firefox, extension authors should provide configurable activation selection in the options panel.

Back when the MacOS version wasn't written in Roman numerals and nicknames after large, wild jungle cats, INIT (much later 'Extenstion') conflicts were the bane of a Macophile's existence. It's starting to look to me like dueling extensions in Firefox is analagous. FF's extension mangler gives no guidance or assistance in handling the keyboard conflicts, and that's probably not the right place to fix this anyway.

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[69] Submitted by: black on Tuesday 7th March 2006 at 14:28 -0500

Can i configure it, so everytime I post in a forum, signature will automaticly be added?

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[70] Submitted by: fred on Sunday 19th March 2006 at 13:20 -0500

Love your extension, simple and elegant. Thanks for developing it.

However, I thought you'd want to know that while using it in Thunderbird 1.5 on Mac OS 10.3.9, using Control+Spacebar crashed Tbird, twice. And both times, upon launching Tbird again, the signature I had created was erased from the list in the extension.

So far, though, click and hold brings up the contextual menu without problem.

Any chance of a toolbar button at some point? I'd love one.

Thanks again.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[71] Submitted by: david on Monday 27th March 2006 at 11:59 -0500

I'd love to use this, but can't with Mozilla 1.7.12 mail since there is no .js file. Has anyone gotten this to work in the Mozilla suite?

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[72] Submitted by: Greg on Wednesday 26th April 2006 at 01:18 -0400

Hi, this extension is fantastic. My work (ISP) has an online ticket system for customer emails, and until I started using this it was a headache - now I save my emails for standard replies in signature! How much easier! I have played with your extension a little too, hope you dont mind - I changed the options window icons to what I feel is a nicer look, and the default signatures to those that my fellow staffer would need so they can install.

One thing I'd be over the moon with though - is the ability to use HTML coding with Thunderbird...but keep up the terrific work!

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[73] Submitted by: Tal on Thursday 28th December 2006 at 03:42 -0800

Add variables to signature:
For example I have signature to insert link to a page
$2
If the plugin could prompt me to put values for $1 and $2 it'll make life even easier (and isn't that what's it all about).
Nevertheless great plugin, thanks.

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[74] Submitted by: Tal on Thursday 28th December 2006 at 03:44 -0800

Sorry my last post removed the actual signature which is an html link tag. so the variables "$1" and "$2" are for the link and for the name of the link "a href='$1' target='_blank'>$2"

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[75] Submitted by: Julie on Saturday 13th January 2007 at 01:59 -0800

Nice extension, thanks !!

what format should I use if I want to import signatures `?
and cant you format the text somehow to be bold ?

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[76] Submitted by: michael on Sunday 14th January 2007 at 13:07 -0800

you can only import from a .properties file, which is meant only for importing a set of signatures that were exported from the extension.

and you can only have plain text. you could use the build in functionality of thunderbird to have a styled signature, as detailed in the link below

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[77] Submitted by: private_lock on Thursday 25th January 2007 at 04:24 -0800

Hello!

I tried to import signatures from my windows installation. It showed me a kind of preview, where I could click the shortcuts and see the full text. But it wouldn't accept a click on "Finish". So I copied them via a text editor one by one.

Moreover I could not make sense of the key accelerators. Ctrl-Space is already gone and Ctrl-/ is not working on my German keyboard, because '/' is itself on shift-7. I scanned about:config, but could not find a way to configure the keyboard.

At least the rightclick menu is working, though the German translation reads 'Signatur einf??gen' because the ü (Umlaut for ue) is scrambled.

Would be nice, if you could improve a little on this.
private_lock

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[78] Submitted by: Charley on Wednesday 28th March 2007 at 11:35 -0700

I am unable to get it to install on TB version 2.0.0.0 (20070326).

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[79] Submitted by: Lancelot on Thursday 29th March 2007 at 02:32 -0700

Hello, can i use html code or something similar? I want to use bold and underline codes and i dont know how:(

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[80] Submitted by: miek on Thursday 29th March 2007 at 02:58 -0700

no html, only plain text.

for html signatures use the built in functionality for signatures that comes with thunderbird.

conmbine that with the signature switch extension

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[81] Submitted by: Kibi on Sunday 15th April 2007 at 05:22 -0700

Hi - can't get your extension to work on TB2 (RC1) :-( any chance of fixing up - it's my favourite extension.

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[82] Submitted by: Kibi on Thursday 19th April 2007 at 03:56 -0700

Hi

Anyone there? TB2 is now released, but I still can't get Signature to work - it's a shame since I love this extension

Please fix

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[83] Submitted by: miek on Thursday 19th April 2007 at 04:29 -0700

the extension is now in the review process on addons.mozilla.org, and hopefully will be approved soon

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[84] Submitted by: Matt on Thursday 19th April 2007 at 06:07 -0700

I really like this extension. It is incredibly useful. I was wondering if there were plans to add the ability to use advanced formating, like Italics / Bold text within the signature. My company generally italicizes the company slogan, and it would be great if I could do this in the Signature Extension.

Thanks for a great extension.

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[85] Submitted by: miek on Thursday 19th April 2007 at 07:39 -0700

there have been for about 2 years, as you can tell my progress is pathetic.

try using signature switch extension for this

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[86] Submitted by: Kibi on Sunday 22nd April 2007 at 07:15 -0700

"The extension is now in the review process on addons.mozilla.org, and hopefully will be approved soon"

Thanks! Looking forward.

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[87] Submitted by: Coert on Wednesday 25th April 2007 at 00:30 -0700

"Let the record show" that I can't wait to start using signature.xpi with TB2.
Hope to see it soon on addons.mozilla.org.

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[88] Submitted by: julien on Wednesday 25th April 2007 at 05:06 -0700

great extention!
Looking forward to TB2 compatibility.

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[89] Submitted by: Nicolas on Monday 30th April 2007 at 01:47 -0700

>the extension is now in the review process on
>addons.mozilla.org, and hopefully will be approved soon

Are you sure that you have correctly added it ? As I don't see it in the sandbox nor in the "public" area...

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[90] Submitted by: miek on Monday 30th April 2007 at 15:12 -0700

as it failed verification (due to an old bug, not a new regression) the interim build is availble here, until i fix the old bug as well

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[91] Submitted by: Kibi on Tuesday 1st May 2007 at 01:36 -0700

Thank you Sooooo much!
No Idea what the old bug is, but it's never bothered me before.
Very happy that this is working again.

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[92] Submitted by: William on Wednesday 2nd May 2007 at 06:23 -0700

All I need from this extension is to have tags around my text. If HTML is too much to ask, can you at least make it so that
__ __)
(, ) | / , /) /) ,
| /| / // // _ ____
|/ |/ _(_(/_(/__(_(_(_/ / (_
/ |

looks good?

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[93] Submitted by: Ricky_O on Sunday 13th May 2007 at 04:46 -0700

Your instructions are terrible (In fact, they s__k)!

Why is it you coders can't take the time to write instructions so that others can use your offerings without having to spend hours digging in information and how-to's. Without instructions, all you do is frustrate people and give them reason to go back to Outlook.
Get a clue!

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[94] Submitted by: Derick on Saturday 9th June 2007 at 19:47 -0700

I won't be as harsh as Ricky O, but I have to admit, as a not coder, the instx are a bit vague. Before I go through the entire thread, can you give us a quick hit on where to compose the signature before insert/paste?

Thanks!

Derick

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[95] Submitted by: Derick on Saturday 9th June 2007 at 19:56 -0700

Great extention!
Looking forward to TB2 compatibility.

Is it?
Are all the instx based on the last version?

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[96] Submitted by: Icheb on Sunday 10th June 2007 at 05:31 -0700

Thank you for the quick fix for Thunderbird 2.0.
I use so many different signatures it's just not doable with just one signature per identity.

Do have a feature request; could the next version have something like 'signature directories'? Like a way to group signatures, so it's no longer one big list.

Thank you.

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[97] Submitted by: Steve on Wednesday 13th June 2007 at 14:42 -0700

Is there anyway to share signatures between the Firefox Version and the T-Bird Version?

That way I can avoid reinventing the wheel.

Thanks

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[98] Submitted by: miek on Thursday 14th June 2007 at 04:21 -0700

only through export form one then import to the other

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[99] Submitted by: Ron K. on Wednesday 15th August 2007 at 21:17 -0700

The Tb 2.0.0.6 build on Windows ME is tossing errors in console that I have tracked to a bad interaction between Signatures and the Tb spellcheck set to check before send.

Do you want the error info?

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[100] Submitted by: Hal Davis on Friday 17th August 2007 at 15:13 -0700

Thanks for updating Signature so it works with TBird 2. I find it extremely useful, and I'd go back to TBird 1 before I did without Signature.

It would be great if the extension allowed one to put in hyperlinks where the "Click here" has different text from the actual path to be followed (I've got some long addresses I like to use, and I don't want them wrapping).

Thanks,

Hal

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[101] Submitted by: mikemmb on Friday 31st August 2007 at 13:51 -0700

Hi, thanks for the extension.
Is there a possibility of an option to trigger the "select signature" window from the sent button.
The problem I have is that I want to send some people my phone number, some my address and some definitely none of these! But I keep forgetting to change the signature .... now if every time I pressed "Send" I had to choose from the list this would fix it.
Now if this could be linked to a "choose folder" to move the sent mail too then I would be doubly happy (sorry this last plea is a little off subject)
Thanks, Mike

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[102] Submitted by: baka on Thursday 27th September 2007 at 06:55 -0700

Thanks for this great tool.

I can't use the autocomplete in my Firefox 2.0.0.7. I type the part of word and press Ctrl+Space. Nothing happens...

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[103] Submitted by: worldwide on Thursday 18th October 2007 at 05:35 -0700

Would be great if the hotkeys could be definded, since im using osx the ctrl-space is not available :-(
So if i could redefine this hotkey would be great !!

Thanx again for this great extension...theres not better ;-)

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[104] Submitted by: skurakai on Wednesday 28th November 2007 at 02:36 -0800

Thank for this. Great extension.

I have problem with diacritics in signatures. If i export this it can't import (errors) and in source code are mistakes.

Is it problem with code (charset)? Signatures isn't unicode extension?

Thanks much.
skurakai from Czech republic

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[105] Submitted by: George Beker on Monday 10th March 2008 at 12:46 -0700

Great - easy to use. The ONE problem is it doesn't allow me to insert formatted text (italics, colors, etc.). That would be GREAT! PLEASE, PLEASE!

If so, let me know.

bekerSig@bekers.org

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[106] Submitted by: Wnelweb on Monday 10th March 2008 at 13:34 -0700

I agree. I'd really like to be able to format the text. Is there already a way to do this?

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[107] Submitted by: Willy Jackson on Friday 14th March 2008 at 10:23 -0700

Does Firefox have any capability to use signatures without an extension? In Tools -> Account Settings -> Composition & Addressing, there is an option called "and place my signature" but it is grayed out. Why?

Second, if Firefox can't do this natively, how do you install this extension? Quoting from the installation instructions they say:

1. download the .xpi file
2. open thunder bird
3. open the extension manager (tools -> extensions)
4. click install button

The problem is that under tools there is NO SELECTION CALLED 'extensions'.

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[108] Submitted by: WNelWeb on Friday 14th March 2008 at 10:43 -0700

First question: no clue as to why this is.
Second question: Took me a while to figure this one out. What you need to do for number 3 is, under Tools, click on Add-ons (which is, I guess, your extension manager). Then you can install whatever extension you downloaded. I do not know why they call it 'extensions' in the instructions, but there you are. Good luck and I hope this helps you!

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[109] Submitted by: WNelWeb on Saturday 15th March 2008 at 09:28 -0700

One other thing you might want to try is saving a new letter as a template.
To do this, Open Thunderbird.
Click on Write or File>new>message. A new, blank email will appear.
Move your cursor down to the body of the email and compose and format your signature (salutation, body, etc.) any way you want.
Once you are satisfied with it, click on File, then Save As and choose Template. Your letter will vanish immediately, likely causing you concern.
Fear not!
Look under your Local Folders heading in Thunderbird. There you will see a folder called Templates.
Click on this folder and you will see your newly saved email template in the preview pane on the right (if that is where you have it set up).
Double click on it and it will open up as a new email, displaying your formatted signature.
From this point on, handle it like you would any new email.
There is no reason you couldn't use this technique for any number of different signatures. You can scroll through your saved templates viewing each in the preview window (assuming you have your Thunderbird set up to use the preview window, of course) until you find the appropriate signature. I haven't yet discovered a way to name the various templates.
PLEASE NOTICE this workaround will NOT work for including your signature on replies and forwards. For that, I suggest using the add-ons for signatures. It is for initial, original emails only, as far as I've been able to discover.
I hope this helps.
N.

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