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10.5: How to create custom Mail stationery
Authored by: kaih on Nov 06, '07 02:53:18PM
Do it properly - whilst this hint covers the basics, it is not 100% spot on.
Apple have the entire .mailstationery bundle format documented, with examples, at developer.apple.com

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/MailArticles/

You don't have to use a span, for instance, to enclose the editable sections, you can use a div instead.

You can automatically insert the user's name out of Address Book, the date and their email address (however I could only get the name to work)

As mentioned in a parent comment, you use uuidgen (in the terminal) to make your own uuids - the whole idea of a uuid is that they're universally unique.

You can use image placeholders, that you can drag and drop images to to replace them in your email.

Be aware that a lot of mail clients (ie, not Mail.app) may have problems displaying some or all of the embedded images in a mail message, so if you're doing this for anything important, make sure you test it in multiple mail clients.

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