Mountain Lion's Apple Mail (Signature issues)

[jstrait]

Quick Simple Solution

I fixed both problems at once by simply deleting all four signatures, then creating two new ones in the latest version of Mail, using the Signature tab in Preferences (no need to monkey around with plists).

Thanks! This worked for me. Just copy, delete, create new, and paste.

 

[readbelow]

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion and had this same problem with having to manually delete signatures. Also, I noticed that I had exact duplicates of both my signatures. (I assumed this latter issue was caused by iCloud syncing my two Macs to each other.)

I fixed both problems at once by simply deleting all four signatures, then creating two new ones in the latest version of Mail, using the Signature tab in Preferences (no need to monkey around with plists).

I just found an old Sent e-mail with the sigs I wanted to recreate and copied & pasted them into the window. They now both work perfectly, and when I select None, I get none.

I guess Mail 6.1 doesn't play nicely with legacy signatures, but seems to works fine if you delete and rebuild them.

Thx Mr.Srceens, exactly the same issue, exactly the same fix! )

 

[jencardwell]

fixed issue

I deleted my email address in the default signature (I did not have email: in front of it) and now everything works just fine. When I have a default signature and change it to another, the new replaces the default. I no longer get two signatures. Yay!

On mine it works for new messages but not for replies: for replies I have to erase the autoinserted signature manually and if I select none then go back to the original signature I get 2 copies of it as detailed above. Interestingly the second copy will appear/disappear as it's supposed to, so it seems to be a glitch with the first signature automatically inserted when you start a reply. Signature is all text, no images.

Edit: a further quick test confirms the link issue detailed above: it works for replies as well as long as there is no email address or website link in the signature, otherwise it doesn't work. Odd, but I guess anyone who gets an email from me has my address anyway so I can live without having it in there until they fix it.

Edit 2: apparently it works as long as you don't have the email address formatted as:

email: xxx@xxx.com

in the signature. Just the email address (i.e. no email: before it) seems to work fine. I truly have no idea what's going on now.