[MlMt] addresses

[Howard Wettstein]

Thanks. yes, I meant signature.
Howie


> On Jul 8, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Bill Cole <mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
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> On 8 Jul 2016, at 17:20, Howard Wettstein wrote:
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>> Two problems.
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> 3, actually...
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> I think there's a bit of email jargon you're not familiar with: "signature" is the term most commonly used for a few lines of text appended to some or all of one's messages, often containing information like non-email contact information. In other words: a signature can contain a real-world address. The rest of my answer assumes that where you say "address" you mean "signature" because that makes perfect sense, whereas "address" is mystifying.
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>> 1. When I insert an address, all subsequent emails have that address appended. But I often don’t want an address at all. Is there a way to automatically turn it off after each use?
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> Sadly, no. This is a function that Benny seems quite fond of, although I have never known anyone else whose use of email signatures actually fits the way it works. By default, you get the signature you last used on email to the person that you are mailing.
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> You can cause MailMate to NOT use a signature for a particular message by selecting "No Signature" from the Signature menu in the composition window.
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>> 2. Placement. I want my address to appear after my message and before the quoted message that’s below. Is there a way to set it up this way.
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> I believe that is what the "Top" option in the Signatures pane of MailMate's Preferences does.
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> Random Trivia: "Signature" in reference to email is an unfortunately overloaded word that can mean either:
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> 1. A short block of text one automatically appends to one's messages in email and in Usenet newsgroups.
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> Traditionally: the signature is delimited from the actual message by a single line containing the 3-character sequence '-- ' The signature itself shall be no more than 4 plaintext lines of 72 characters or less. Improper delimiters, more than 4 lines, lines over 80 characters, ASCII art, control-code mischief, or (worst of all) HTML in a signature makes the author Fair Game for the alt.fan.warlord newsgroup, where signature narcissists go to be flayed.
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> 2. A cryptographically-generated blob of data generated from a message by an asymmetric (a.k.a. public-key) cryptographic system which is used to irrefutably assert authorship of a message by the owner of a particular key pair.
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