[Macpartners] Question re Apple Mail signatures - FOLLOWUP

[Gurukarm Khalsa]

Last week I sent the below email to the list, and one response I got  
was to try filing a bug report with Apple if the behavior persisted.  
That led me to look for any info in the Apple forums on this problem  
and found out two things, one useful, one not so much.

The not so useful info was that someone said this is a "known issue"  
and should be fixed in Leopard. Great. ;-)

The useful info was to rename my main account to match my actual  
email address (instead of "MIT IMAP Server", call it gkkhalsa, in  
Mail -> Preferences -> Accounts). Did that, moved my signatures to  
the newly renamed main account, quit and restarted, and lo and  
behold, all "stuck"!

Hopefully sending will still work correctly!
Thanks,
Cheers,
Gurukarm



> I have several email signatures I use for various circumstances, in  
> two accounts in Mail (one is my own, one is for bldg 68 room  
> reservations). Until recently (the last couple of weeks or so), the  
> signature list showed up normally under the pop-up menu for  
> Signatures whenever I started a new email message.
>
> All of a sudden, if I quit Mail and restart, the pop-up list  
> disappears. Only "None" is available as a choice. If I go into Mail  
> -> Preferences -> Signatures,  all of the signatures show up in the  
> furthest left-hand pane under "All Signatures", but under MIT IMAP  
> server, 0 signatures show up. I can drag and drop from "All" to the  
> server, and for the balance of that Mail session, the pop-up menu  
> again offers any signature I added to the IMAP server, in a new  
> message. But if I quit and restart, the signatures are again gone.
>
> Interestingly, however, the one signature I attached to the Rooms  
> account, shows up every time I use that account to reply to a  
> message or create a new one.
>
> My default signature is "none" on my main account, but it has  
> always been; I have not changed that.
>
> Any ideas about why the signatures all disappear?
>
> Thanks!
> Gurukarm


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