Re: [Evolution] Signatures

[Des Dougan <des DouganConsulting com>]

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 18:39 +0100, Ollie Killingback wrote:
> Signature maintenance seems to be a problem with Evolution.  Creating a
> signature is easy (altho' looking under Accounts was the last thing I
> thought of) and changing a signature from the list on a new mail item is
> equally simple.
>
> But editing an existing signature does not seem so easy.  I found the
> home/.evolution/signatures directory but when I open a signature and try
> to change it things like word-wrap go awry.  And there is no means to
> delete a signature (or at any rate I can't find one) from within the
> interface.  I tried deleting signatures from the folder, but they remain
> in the drop-down list.  
>
> So say I have a 'formal' signature and need to edit it - if I make
> changes in the signature file (unhelpfully called signature-n where n is
> a numeral) when I reuse it the wrapping may no longer be correct.  If I
> delete it from the folder I cannot create a new one of the same name
> because the interface thinks the previous (deleted) one still exists.
>
> Or have I missed something elementary?

Edit, Preferences, Composer Preferences, Signatures tab, select the
signature you want then Edit. That seems to be what you're looking for.


Des

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