Can you create your own Leopard Mail Stationary?

I sure hope not, but I'm sure you can. It's just html mail.

The first person to send me an email using stationary gets put straight into my Junk filter.

That stupid fad wasn't worthwhile when MS did it years ago.

God forbid emails should look nice and include images in any way other than a grid of icons.

Were you also outraged that iChat didn't look like IRC?

I'm pretty sure in WWDC 2007 Steve said you could. I think...

No idea, but I rather hope so. Nice for web developers like me!

My domain email account ( @nintendoplayers.com ) has a ridiculous 10 MB limit, so I actually get ticked when people send me image-heavy emails (why the heck do corporations feel so inclinded to send out press releases as Word Documents or PDF when they can just copy and paste the contents into the email and take up a fraction of the space?). Don't care about my GMail accounts though.

GFLPraxis said:

My domain email account ( @nintendoplayers.com ) has a ridiculous 10 MB limit, so I actually get ticked when people send me image-heavy emails.

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I hope you mean that you get ticked off at your hosting provider, not at the sender.

I wonder if Leopard's stationary does a good job of providing alt plain text? Grumping aside, there're lots of devices that don't display HTML text... you're so 1337 for sending your request out in a fancy HTML mail, but if it needs a short answer that I could've given you from my Blackberry, you're going to have to wait.

Creating Your Own Leopard Mail Stationary?

Well, it's not terribly difficult to do it, the stationary is located here:

/Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationary/...

Then the folder structure continues (apparently with 3rd party support in mind)...

.../Apple/Contents/Resources/...

Then the individual Categories are listed as Directories...

.../Announcements/...
.../Birthdays/...
.../Photos/...

... etc ...

There's a TableOfContents.plist that lists the folders.

Within each folder it repeats the .../Contents/Resources/...

Which contain .mailstationary files, "Right Click" & "Show Package Contents" reveals another set of .../Contents/Resources/...

which brings us to the html file, images, Description.plist, and English.lproj folder.

The "content.html" file contains the layout, whereas the Description.plist acts more like CSS, except it is in a XML plist format.

Essentially, you can create your own Mail Stationary very easily with a little HTML knowledge and using Apple's examples as templates!

The English.lproj folder contains a file DisplayName.strings which just contains the name of the Stationary. If you had more languages installed I'm sure there would be a folder for each language, or at least that would be my guess.

It is my hope that Apple will make it easier to create your own Mail Stationary from within Pages or iWeb.

I hope this helps...

- PsiliPharm

Yes... here's a downloadable example.

CavemanUK said:

So the question again.. Does Leopards Mail allow you to create custom stationary?

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Yes, without question. Here is a simple downloadable example.

http://www.technosanity.com/2007/10/27/a-customizable-mail-letterhead-template-for-os-x-leopard/

I've been fiddling with creating my own stationary but it's not quite as intuitive as I would have liked. Is there a way to add a custom backdrop and text/photo boxes?

These are really neat. I'd love to add some of these tips to my own site if nobody minds.

ivnj

PsiliPharm above seems to have covered the topic pretty well but there is also an interesting discussion of this site:

http://iuseapple.com/blog/apple-how...tionary-for-mail-getting-started-osx-leopard/

Have not tried their method but looks promising.

Custom templates would be nice.

Customised mail stationary is possible!

CavemanUK said:

It would be great if Leopard did allow you to create your own stationary..

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It's possible, i did it too:
http://www.jdempsey.com/how-to-creat...ry-in-leopard/

I sent one, and while the person actually wanted to recieve it as a stationary, the spam filter apparently stripped off all HTML. And yes, as plain text they look just fine.