Finishing Your Emails with a Flourish
- Posted September 18th, 2007 at 4:42 pm by Ryan
- Categories: General, Tips & Tutorials
I always like to end things on a high. That’s why I love being able to add a special signature at the end of my emails. Just a little something that’s all mine, with some contact details thrown in for good measure. You can do it too. Add a saying, a proverb, a phrase that sums you up. It’s up to you how you sign off.
It’s easy to do, just start by click on Options, then selecting Mail Options. In the center of the page after “Signature:” select “Show a signature on all outgoing messages”. On the far right of the message window above the text area click either Plain Text (yawn) or Rich Text (cool and colorful stuff) before you start writing your signature in the text area. As you can see from mine I opted for Rich Text, and even included a sprinkling of HMTL. There isn’t an option to manually insert or edit HTML, but you can copy/paste from other pages if you have something you want to use. Finish off by clicking Save Changes, and you have a signature.
There you go, hope you enjoy it!
Ryan
Community Manager
Yahoo! Mail
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- 35 Comments
September 18th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
There are no endings, only beginnings.
September 18th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
Hi Ryan,
I am giving Y! mail another try after several years. It seems very rich. I tried your settings for the signature and it works, but I still get the Yahoo mail advertisement under my signature. Is removing that a premium feature?
September 18th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Hi Ryan,
I’d love the option to choose to use my signature with each outgoing email……… or not. Also - Having the option of a couple of different signatures would be useful to me.
September 18th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
I have Microsoft Outlook on my computer, that I had to uninstall due to Yahoo will not work with it. We are the grandparents of 15 grandchildren and 4 children. all whom live in other states and all of them are on Outlook, and I can’t get mine to run with Yahoo… WHY?? I Don’t want to import Outlook TO Yahoo, but my Yahoo mail Exported INTO my microsoft outlook. HELP!!!
September 18th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
I used this feature before and then stopped for the reason that Chris suggested - there wasn’t a choice of when to use it and when not without having to make a couple of extra efforts to enable/disable it.
I also wanted to have a choice of several signatures to use, but that’s not available either.
Both would be wonderful tools to have!
September 18th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
having an actual cursive signature is what i want
September 18th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
salute for all of you……peace …
September 19th, 2007 at 1:26 am
“There isn’t an option to manually insert or edit HTML”
Please give us this option!
September 19th, 2007 at 5:06 am
how come and so easily someone can use yahoo id for their sales ad….in bulk mail? make some smart design to trace them and stop them.
September 19th, 2007 at 5:09 am
I can get to My Yahoo! but not My Yahoo! Mail or Calendar or even Toolbar. What’s going on?
September 19th, 2007 at 6:12 am
I used to use signatures when classic Yahoo Mail had a simple checkbox to disable it for a particular message. I setup my signature and had it on for the default, but it was easy to turn it off for just one message if I wanted. With the current version, it’s just too many steps to disable the signature for one message, so I don’t use it at all. Give us back that quick option and you’ll see a lot more usage.
September 19th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Also having problems with Yahoo Mail: getting message - The page isn’t redirecting properly. Tried Mac, Windows, IE, Firefox…..
Not good……
September 19th, 2007 at 6:44 am
can get yahoo,my yahoo,everything cep’t yahoo mail Sept 18-19. What , what ?
bill
September 19th, 2007 at 6:45 am
I agree with most of the people who commented that it’s a great tool and kind of neat to add a piece of yourself to the end of emails but sometimes as is the case when sending a business type email you don’t exactly want your funny signature at the bottom. There are to many steps to go through to remove it so I stopped using mine. Plus it would be nice to be able to have a couple different signatures to choose form.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:36 am
With my other email programs such as eudora, i could copy and paste a graphic, i.e. a jpeg file as part of my signature, but this cannot be done now with Yahoo. Also as I mentioned in another message to U it would be nice to be able to forward an email and be able to C it and edit it before sending it. Sometimes U just do not want others to C the addresses on a forwarded email. Thanks for reading this I hope….
September 19th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Never forget the basics. People will never use a great application even it does not have the ability to do one or two things people.
Add an enable/disable signature feature on each new email message, and people will use this.
September 19th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Signature function is nice, but seriously needs more fonts and space.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Signatures are often nothing but an ego trip. Being cool can be a pain to those who receive them. Especially when you get regular emails from the same person. There are a hundred features I would rather have.
Howard
(Enough of a signature.)
September 19th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
hey there wat is up just chillin!!
September 19th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
i still haven’t gotten the new yahoo mail still have beta. hope new is coming soon
September 19th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
What I don’t like is when I reply to a message. I put my text at the beginning, but the signature goes after the forwarded part of the previous e-mail
September 19th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
For those who are behind the times (or do not have their own business) signatures are not an ego trip, but an e-marketing tool. I get significantly more hits on my websites since I have added the urls to my signature. I do agree that an option to add/disable and have multiple signatures would be much appreciated.
September 20th, 2007 at 2:55 am
dear i am facing the big problem that i am not able to sent my mail when i click sent it dispair and the login page comes again please suggest how to come out from this problem.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:03 am
They definitely need to put an “Add Signature” button on composing emails. This should be a drop down button that allows you to choose between 2 or 3 signatures that you have preset on the Signature Options page. Please put this feature into Yahoo Mail so that these superflous steps are eliminated and signatures are worth using.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
just saying hi too all my old friends
September 21st, 2007 at 12:19 am
The new Yahoo! Mail does not allow you to elect the use of signature or not on individual outgoing emails. That option sure would be nice.
Also, incoming emails do not color code depending on which address was used. That, too, would be useful in the new mail system.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:53 am
i would like to change the background colour of my messages
September 21st, 2007 at 5:34 am
I join the many voices who ask multiple signatures and the optional use in every message. Howard seems to have a complex with the signature, to me it is a great tool to keep my contacts updated on my activities and location, due to the many different things I do and varied hats I use.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:47 am
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September 21st, 2007 at 11:57 am
I enjoy the Yahoo! Mail with the unlimited storage. I would like to know how to use a mail client with Yahoo mail.
Thanks
September 21st, 2007 at 2:30 pm
God granted me the knowledge to know the diffrence between the things i cannot change, to change the things that i can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Serenity Prayer
October 3rd, 2007 at 6:50 am
Ryan,
I agree with the comment made by Chris on Sept 18th. Is there any way to add a button on the compose page to insert your signature. I don’t always want my signature on all my out going emails, so I have to go back and forth to the options page to change it all of the time.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:15 am
Hi! I agree and join the voices calling for a tool in Yahoo Mail where to choose between a few different signatures for each outgoing mail.
Markus
November 27th, 2007 at 11:28 am
Found a temporary solution until Yahoo updates to a system with multiple signatures to choose from and attach to different accounts. Take a look at: http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtip1/qt/et_ym_templates.htm
on how to use templates to achieve this. It requires you to click twice instead of once when composing a new mail.
/Markus
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