[MlMt] Signature placement

[Tom Worster]

I am baffled by MailMate's behavior wrt signatures. What am I doing 
wrong?

First, if Preferences:Signatures:Default signature placement is set to 
"Top" then, when I reply to an email, the signature is inserted at the 
bottom of the reply, below the quoted text. The behavior is the same if 
it is set to "Bottom", except that this is [less astonishing](Principle 
of least astonishment).

I need to top-reply in most of my correspondences because this is what 
people expect. And I need my signature to be immediately below my reply 
and above the quoted text. For now, I copy-paste the signature that 
MailMate inserts at the bottom of the email to the top and then compose 
my reply.

Second, how do I defeat automatic insertion of a signature?

Third, I use signatures as a convenient way to insert various 
boilerplate texts. But when I insert a signature using the composer's 
toolbar, I always get a warning about discarding HTML. What's this 
about?

Finally, I don't understand what is the "HTML Variant" or how it works.

What would suit me is very simple:

1. An option to not insert a signature by default.
2. When I insert a signature using the composer's toolbar menu, MailMate 
inserts it
     - at my carat, wherever that may be, and
     - simply as a plain-text string. Regardless if I am composing in 
markdown or not, just insert the characters in the signature string as 
though I had typed them or copy-pasted them from a text-editor.

Unless I'm doing something wrong, I will need to add something like 
[Paste](http://pasteapp.me/) to MailMate to transition from Outlook.

Tom
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