Mail signature doesn't display properly

I've been having an issue with my signature in Mail.app. When I compose and view my message in Mail, my signature appears correctly, however recipients of my emails have reported to me that a couple of the lines of my signature appear with an increased font size (so if I have 5 lines of signature text, 3 will be size 12, which is what I want, and 2 will be size 14). I can see this happening for myself when people reply to my emails - the signature that appeared correct when I composed my email comes back entirely distorted.

Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this, or how it can be fixed? FWIW, I'm using Verdana size 12.

TIA

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.1)

Posted on Nov 10, 2009 8:47 AM

18 replies

Jan 20, 2010 9:34 AM in response to rubyrock

Add me to the list of people with this problem. It's caused me to have to shift back to using the Gmail web UI. Regardless of the root cause, this is a recent behavior (Snow Leopard?) and results in emails looking very unprofessional.

Jan 22, 2010 9:56 AM in response to Shawn Yeager

I think I found the solution/work-around. I went back to the Signatures dialog in Preferences and meticulously set each and every aspect of my signature's fonts, sizes and other attributes (bold, italic, etc.). In other words, don't believe what you see if you've pasted or otherwise modified your signature outside of this dialog. Further, don't believe that the "Always match my default font" check box will do what it claims. It won't.

However, after going through the above exercise, my signatures are behaving as expected.

Hope this helps. Apple: this is bad UI/UX.

Feb 4, 2010 7:44 AM in response to dsrtrosy

Same issue here, I tried Shawn's solution - to no avail. Anything under the image gets attached (including the email I'm replying to). Any insight on fixing this would be wonderful.

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