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How to add html to signature in e-mail

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epalanb

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Hi Guys,

Just got my first android device coming from bb. Love it so far......
Have done some searching and it looks like you can't add html to signature in the natice e-mail.

I read that it could be done in Enhanced e-mail. I downloaded it but don't see how to do it. Could someone tell me how? I am not stuck on enhanced e-mail either as I have only had it installed for a day. What ever works........

Thanks,
Alan
 
Enhanced Email has a setting to send mail as html and if set so your signature will be html. But if you mean including a logo or something, IOW something more than text in the signature, I'm not aware that EE, K9 or any other phone mail client can do that.
 
Crashdamage said:
Enhanced Email has a setting to send mail as html and if set so your signature will be html. But if you mean including a logo or something, IOW something more than text in the signature, I'm not aware that EE, K9 or any other phone mail client can do that.
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In Enhanced e-mail there is a setting under message settings > HTML Inbound. I checked it so it says "messages will be shown with html formatting. When I receive a message that has html in there it comes through just like it should. My signature that I send from outlook on my desktop is an html formatted signature. It looks really nice/professional when it works right. If I copy and paste that signature into enhanced e-mail and send it is just text now and certainly not as nice looking.

There has to be a way to get this looking the same way as it does coming from my desktop.

Alan
 
epalanb said:
In Enhanced e-mail there is a setting under message settings > HTML Inbound. I checked it so it says "messages will be shown with html formatting.
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There is a separate HTML setting for outbound email in the same place as the incoming setting.
Message settings > HTML settings
Don't know how you missed it.
 
Crashdamage said:
There is a separate HTML setting for outbound email in the same place as the incoming setting.
Message settings > HTML settings
Don't know how you missed it.
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Yes, I found that too. I suspect that I have to convert the signature into the source code and then paste it into enhanced e-mail signature. I am going to see if I can figure out how to do that and see what happens.

Thanks,
Alan
 
epalanb said:
I suspect that I have to convert the signature into the source code and then paste it into enhanced e-mail signature. I am going to see if I can figure out how to do that and see what happens.

Thanks,
Alan
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It turns out that this is exactly what you have to do. It does work to do this and it looks great!

Here is what I did:
send myself an e-mail from outlook with just my signature on it. While still in outlook (I am using an older version of outlook -2003-) where all I had to do was open up that e-mail, right click on the body of the e-mail and select "view source" select it, copy it and paste it into a new e-mail in outlook. I just then sent it to myself again this time opening it up in enhanced e-mail. I then just copied the text and pasted it all into where you can enter what you want for a signature in enhanced e-mail.

worked like a charm.....
 
@epalanb: Been trying to set a html sig with a logo using the method you described. Copy/pasted the source into EE starting at '<html>' through the end (left off all the message info preceeding that). But the logo doesn't diisplay properly in sent emails.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
 
Crashdamage said:
@epalanb: Been trying to set a html sig with a logo using the method you described. Copy/pasted the source into EE starting at '' through the end (left off all the message info preceeding that). But the logo doesn't diisplay properly in sent emails.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
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I am still working on mine too. I was a bit pre-mature with my satisfaction. I did exactly what I described and some of the formatting came through and some of it is not exactly right for me either. I concluded that it was an easy fix and I made my earlier post. So far I still don't have it quite right though. I can see that html has to be supported because some of the formatting is there. Enhanced E-mail has a support site. Not sure if I am allowed to post that here, but you can google it easy enough. The admin there seems to be answering questions. I am going to ask more over there too.

Sorry I can't help you more yet. I will post more when I get it all figured out.

Alan
 
Thanks. I'm kinda busy right now but soon as I have time I'll check out the EE forum and your post for help with this.
 
epalanb said:
I am still working on mine too. I was a bit pre-mature with my satisfaction. ....... I still don't have it quite right though.........The admin there seems to be answering questions. I am going to ask more over there too.

Sorry I can't help you more yet. I will post more when I get it all figured out.
Alan
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I guess I had some non-standard html in my signature. The admin at Enhanced Email got me straighteded out. Through their forum, he was very helpful and now my signature looks just like I would like it to look!

Problem solved
 
Crashdamage said:
Can you please give a link to the fix in the forum?
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Here is a link to the thread on the enhanced e-mail forum: Enhanced Email &bull; View topic - How to copy an HTML Signature that I already have from Outlo

Unfortunately that is probably not going to help you. In my case the fix was to fix the html code. If yours is anything like mine, you probably should just find someone that knows a little about html code and have them fix your code. I had some non-standard code in there that would not work because it wasn't compatible with html.

Alan
 
Your problem with non-standard HTML may have been due to using Outlook to generate it. Outlook is notorious for such things. I used Thunderbird which is much more standards-compliant so I may have a different issue. I'll post in that thread and see if there's a fix for me.

Many thanks!
 
I was reading the conversation and thought this might help. When copying the source code. Use a text editor such as notepad ++ to copy the code instead of inspecting the element. Ran into this when trying to edit a custom HTML signature and saving it with chrome. For what ever reason it would only save correctly from the text editor. That could be what's causing the code to not display correctly. Also could try saving HTML signature as .htm and then copying code.
 
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