[MlMt] Mailmate now supports html signatures

Dries Geeroms d at driesgeeroms.com
Thu Mar 6 18:11:41 EST 2014


Looks like I'm missing out on the latest beta build, double checked the
updates but I get:

> MailMate 4025 is the latest version available—you have 4025.

First time this happens. Any ideas?


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Steve Mayer wrote:
> Dries,
> 
>    From the release notes on the latest beta build (4057):
> 
> Revision 4057 (Thursday, March 6, 2014)
> 
> MailMate now allows signatures to have an HTML alternative to be used 
> for HTML generation. This has mainly been implemented to help out the 
> users which have to adhere to a strict company policy.
> 
> There is no GUI for this yet. To try it out you need to quit MailMate 
> and edit this file:
> 
> ~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Signatures.plist
> Add an html key to any of the signatures, for example,
> 
> html = "<strong>Regards,</strong>\n<em>Benny</em>\n";
> This works in both plain text and Markdown mode. In other words, even 
> without the use of Markdown, an HTML body part is generated to be able 
> to insert the HTML signature. Naturally, if no HTML alternative exists 
> then HTML is not generated.
> 
> (This feature does not mean that HTML is now allowed in general when 
> using Markdown.)
> 
> 
> --
> Steve
> 
> On 6 Mar 2014, at 14:54, Dries Geeroms wrote:
> 
> > How did you end up doing this? Did I miss something in the most recent
> > update?
> >
> > I prefer plain text as well, but we have to use signatures following 
> > the
> > company's guidelines at work...
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014, at 12:02 AM, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> >> On 6 Mar 2014, at 13:07, Giovanni Lanzani wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hurrah to Benny!
> >>
> >> :-)
> >>
> >> Just keep this in mind: Your message is 44% bigger than it would have
> >> been without the HTML signature. If ignoring the delivery-related
> >> headers then it's a 73% increase :-) It's not much in bytes 
> >> (especially
> >> not compared to attachments), but it still seems to be a bit of a 
> >> waste.
> >> Not that this “problem” is any different than when using Markdown
> >> with HTML generation which I do myself extensively.
> >>
> >> -- 
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