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Append a new random quote to the end of a Mail signature
Authored by: skoot on Apr 26, '10 07:42:00AM

I'm the OP. This is all tested, since it's the setup I'm using.

I've used Signature Profiler for years before OS 10.6, but it doesn't work at all with exchange accounts, and with regular IMAP or POP accounts it introduces a pretty huge memory leak : Mail.app was using half a Go of RAM after a couple hours, and at the end of the day the swap file was so big that the computer had a hard time doing anything.

In a word, it's broken and hardly maintained.

As some of you have said, this rather complex hint is either for people that like to maintain a list of their favorite quotes in an external file, or that have a huge list of quotes : I have 3 email accounts and about a hundred quotes, and I don't want to create 300 signatures in Mail.app. Using this hint, I just need 3 "templates" in Mail.app and an easy to edit text file. And whenever I need to change something in the signature of one of my accounts, I don't have to edit 100 sigs by hand...

Finally, all my quotes are RFC 1855 compliant : less than 4 lines total (template + quote) and less than 80 characters wide, plain text of course. :-)



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Append a new random quote to the end of a Mail signature
Authored by: ArizonaBill on Apr 27, '10 08:18:08PM

I had a similar experience. I had a list of taglines from my past I wanted to use. I ended up copying the whole list and pasting it into Mail as ONE signature that I named "tags." When I want to use one of the taglines, I select the tags signature from the list and the whole dang list pops into my message at the end. Then, I hold down the down-arrow key for a random length of time (sometimes I cheat and pick one that goes well with my message), copy the line I'm on, undo the insertion of the "tags" signature and then paste the random tag into the bottom of my message. {( ` ;

Kinda kludgy, but I've been using it since maybe 10.3. It does save having the daunting task of putting the individual taglines into signature list.



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