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xJustxMegx

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Oct 13, 2024
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Hi there,

I'm using the Mail app for 7 different email accounts, now do I want to set a few signatures, they are created but I can't add them to my mail accounts? What are I doing wrong?
 
It is for me too until I click the + icon under the box to the left of where the signature content goes. That click of + creates "Signature #1" and then the box for the actual signature content can be entered or customized. This would allow you to create a variety of signatures that you could then choose for a given email from that address. For example, in one you might have a detailed signature that includes phone number and another (Signature #2) may leave out phone number.

If the box over the + and - icon is blank, you have to click + first and then the box in which signature content goes will become accessible.

The above assumes you are doing this on a Mac and not an iDevice.
 
Creating 7 for 7 different "from" addresses should work. Each would be a "Signature 1" for each address.

However, I also see an "All Signatures" entry in the Signatures box. Maybe it is for generic content for all boxes? I don't know. Put something in that one as a test and open a few new emails from different "From" email addresses and see if they show the test content you insert. If not, yes, create a Signature 1 for each email address.

Usually multiple email addresses serve different purposes, such as one is work and one is personal. Presumably, the assumption is that you would want different signature information in such email. If that's not true for you, perfect a signature in one, then select it, copy, and paste the same into the others as their own "Signature 1"

Clicking the question mark icon in the lower right says this about "All Signatures": When All Signatures is selected, you can add an existing signature to another account by dragging the signature from the middle column to the account in the left column. You can use the same signature in more than one account. So instead of copy & paste, that looks like the faster way to copy a signature to other email address in your list of 7. Presumably, this would make it so that if you tweak the address in one place, the change would take effect for all of the from email you send (vs. having to make the same tweak 7 times).

You might want to click that same question mark icon and read the help instructions that open. They seem to explain much of this quite well.
 
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