How To Make an Email Signature in Thunderbird

Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by Kyle Judkins in How To

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thunderbird logoEmail signatures can be very important to marketing yourself and looking professional.  Part of the reason I wanted to write up this quick tutorial is due to the fact that I have a signature at work, but I don’t have one for my blog.  I’m going to put an end to that and show everyone else how to do the same.

You want to start by composing an email like normal, but instead of writing in a normal email, type in the signature you want.  Your signature can use HTML or be in plain text.  HTML can be used in Thunderbird, but it isn’t always supported by other email clients and can end up looking funny for those clients.  For this reason, I recommend to just stick to plain text for your signature.

thunderbird signature

Now, you will need to click on the Save button on your main toolbar and Save As a File.  Alternatively, you can click on File then Save As from the menu bar at the top.  Make sure you save your signature in a place you’ll remember with a name you’ll remember.

thunderbird export to text

Next, right click on the email address you want the signature to be applied to and click on Properties.

thunderbird apply

The Account Settings will open up for that email address.  Make sure the Attach this signature check box is checked, then click the on the Choose button and locate your signature to apply it.

thunderbird account settings

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5 Responses to “How To Make an Email Signature in Thunderbird”

  1. Philip Behan

    02. Sep, 2009

    Dear Kyle, I’ve followed your tutorial to the letter and I’m afraid it doesn’t work! 1. The html code still shows in the signature when writing a reply; 2. it will not display any graphics. This behaviour is demonstrated when initially writing an email and replying to one from a 3rd party.

    The only way I can get it to work is to compose the signature in Notepad. However, this method works when initially composing an email but, for some reason I haven’t determined yet, when replying to a 3rd party email the alternate text for the graphic is displaying rather than the graphic itself.

    Any light you can throw upon this problem would be very well received.

    Regards.
    Phil

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    • Kyle Judkins

      02. Sep, 2009

      I don’t use html in my signatures due to the fact there are a few issues. This might be one of the reasons for your problem. Also, I think there is an option to turn your signature off in replies. I hope this helps, and thanks for reading!

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  2. Agnes

    25. Sep, 2009

    If you are having problems with your signature not working as though it were html, it is because you have not saved your signature to a file with the html extension.

    The problem I have is with the signature showing up at the bottom when I reply, even though I want to write at the top.

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  3. Philip Behan

    28. Sep, 2009

    Agnes, as I said in my initial post, I’d followed Klye’s tutorial to the letter and I DID save my file with a .html extension. The problem I have is as I set out in my initial post: the html coding and the graphics file not working. BTW…I have no problem with setting my signature to appear below my response: there is an option to choose this in the settings for the account.

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  4. Anser Mehmood

    11. Nov, 2009

    I have a problem with my thunderbird email signatures that whenever I reply to some mail, signature doesnot appear below to my reply. instead it appears in bottom of the mail.
    Please help me what should I do in this regard.

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