in mail my signature is the correct size until I add a link into the body of the message.....then it is sent to my clients as a huge signature!
Why is this happening!
By "link" to you mean you are including the signature as an attached file in the E-Mail also?
Hi,
Thank you for your reply.
I am not very good with this kinda thing, so I am unable to insert a html thingy as my signature, so I just have a regular signature......just text.... the problem is that within my signature my website doesn't come up as a link... just plain text.... which isn't looking good....
When typing a message;
I can highlight the text within the signature and turn it into a link or I can obviously add a link elsewhere within my text...... but as soon as I do that when the recipient gets my email, the signature has now doubled in size!
The text within the email is regular size and the signature is twice the size! Which obviously looks stupid!
However when there are no links everything matches in size! very strange
I'm having the exact same issue, and so far haven't found a solution. When I view the signature on my screen, it looks completely normal. However, my recipients see a much larger font (just the signature!), which looks really crappy. When they respond to my email, I'm able to see the enlarged fonts from my original message to them... Really wish I knew how to stop this.
Same issue here. And it hasn't been fixed in Lion. What a shame. I send my emails in all Helvetica or Arial 12 and the receipient sees a Times 12 Text and a Arial 16 bold signature. This bug exists for years now.
Does anyone know a useful solution?
Yes, there is a solution I just found. Do exactly the following:
- Go to any computer with Microsoft Outlook.
- Create a signature in Microsoft Outlook. Write your signature, edit the fonts, sizes, etc...
- Make sure the font and font size is the same as the one you set in Mail as your default font.(example: Arial 12)
- Save it, and send an email from Outlook with this signature to yourself (the computer where you use Mail)
- Once you've received this email in Mail, select and "copy" the signature
- Go to Mail, and create a new signature
- Paste the signature (the one you sent to yourself from Outlook)
- Make sure that "Use the same message format as the original message." is unchecked !!
Now try to send an email with this signature, open the email in any mail client like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc... and now the signature should have the same size as the text.
Warning: whenever you want to modify your signature, you have to re-do this entire process. Let's say you want to put a word in Bold in Mail Signature, do not do it, it will screw up everything again. So make sure when you edit your signature in Outlook that it is complete and properly edited.
I know it's not easy, but Apple seems unwilling to solve that MAJOR issue....
Altazon, thanks for that workaround. It works fine! Finally a solution for a reliable signature.
Regarding the text body, I have found out that there is one font and size setting that shows up propperly in Outlook. It is Arial 10 pt. All other settings get messed up, it is only this sole combination that works. So if you select your written text in your outgoing email and set it to Arial 10, it won't be messed up.
Unfortunately it doesn't work if you set that in the default font settings. So we will always have to apply it manually. Therefor I have my default font on Helvetica 12 and before I hit the send button, I apply Arial 10 to the text body. The signature I have set accordingly using your workaround.
I see. Well, it's quite unbelievable that such a basic feature needs a workaround, using... Microsoft !!!
I've been sending professional emails for 4 months, and I just noticed that they were all wrong... thanks Apple.. :-(
Lucky I found the workaround today, cause it was driving me nuts. I was that close from installing Windows 7 with bootcamp.
oh, and the easy solution to completely get rid of all the bugs is to create an HTML signature and paste it in Mail. But what's the point of having a Signature editor integrated into Mail if we have to do it ourselves in a HTML editor.
Altazon wrote:
I see. Well, it's quite unbelievable that such a basic feature needs a workaround, using... Microsoft !!!
I've been sending professional emails for 4 months, and I just noticed that they were all wrong... thanks Apple.. :-(
Lucky I found the workaround today, cause it was driving me nuts. I was that close from installing Windows 7 with bootcamp.
Same here, but it was about one year until someone told me why my emails look so "different". Pure embarrassment.
Since then I have used Outlook as a second email client. My disappointment was infinite when I found out that Lion didn't fix it.
But at least there is a provisional fix now.
I can't believe that Apple won't fix this!!!!!! It isn't simply the size that screws up. Links, images and spacing is also affected when an Apple user sends emails to anyone but Apple users. Even between Apple users there are issues when using links and images in the Apple Mail Signature tool. Half of our staff uses Macs and I've created HTML signatures for all of them because it is the only way to ensure that their signatures aren't going to make them look like colossal idiots. But that is not all, when a user tries to alter the beautiful HTML signature that I painstakingly created and uploaded for them via screenshare (thanks Apple for wasting my day), it screws everything up again.
I'm going to try the suggestion to create the signature in Outlook and then import it to Apple. I might be able to do it quicker and avoid a screenshare.
Unfortunately, this does not work for images and links - just tested it. I can't even describe how horked up this is. The only thing that works is to create an HTML file and upload it as a webarchive to the signatures folder. I'd give specific instructions but their different for each operating system.
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