Display signature (sigdash and below) greyed out?
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Display signature (sigdash and below) greyed out?
On Netscape mail/news, the sigdash line (<CR><LF>-- <CR><LF>) and
below in a message was displayed greyed out. Does anyone know of a way
to get Thunderbird to do the same?
below in a message was displayed greyed out. Does anyone know of a way
to get Thunderbird to do the same?
Regards,
James
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James, My TB *does* grey out the sig lines and the "-- " marker
Do you have any extensions installed ? (they could be messing with colors or something)
When you click reply on a message that has the sigdash line and sig, does the sig show up in the quoted text in the reply ? ( TB doesn't include the message sig in your reply ) .. Just trying to get a handle on what could be wrong.
Do you have any extensions installed ? (they could be messing with colors or something)
When you click reply on a message that has the sigdash line and sig, does the sig show up in the quoted text in the reply ? ( TB doesn't include the message sig in your reply ) .. Just trying to get a handle on what could be wrong.
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Yes, I have a number of extensions installed, and in particular I've been using the "MicroThunderbird" theme. Switching back to the "Mozilla Thunderbird" theme brings back the greyed-out signatures.
Even with the MicroThunderbird theme active, (proper) signatures aren't included in the quoted text.
Thanks for the inspiration, at least now I know that Thunderbird itself can treat signatures as I expected.
Even with the MicroThunderbird theme active, (proper) signatures aren't included in the quoted text.
Thanks for the inspiration, at least now I know that Thunderbird itself can treat signatures as I expected.
Regards,
James
James
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If you want to overrule the color of your signature as set by your theme put this in your userContent.css:
You can find (or create as a text file) your userContent.css in the chrome folder of your profile (see http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/edit.html)
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.moz-txt-sig { color: gray !important; }
You can find (or create as a text file) your userContent.css in the chrome folder of your profile (see http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/edit.html)
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You mean your Thunderbird does not cut of signatures when you reply to a message?
Extensions for Thunderbird: <a href="http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/?page=tb_cs">Contacts Sidebar</a>, <a href="http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/?page=tb_ts">Timestamp</a> and <a href="http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/?page=tb_aes">Allow Empty Subject</a>
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Sean,
Please explain what you are saying. From where I sit, TB *does* use them for what they were intended for. OE and Outlook do NOT insert sigdashes and I am forced to manually snip the friggin disclaimer text from mail that I receive from companies that put this disclaimer text in the sig when I reply to them.
My wife works for one of these companies that use outlook (aka offenders) and I've told her to manually insert the sigtext at the bottom of her messages so that her company's disclaimer text does not come back to her in a reply to her message (the replier obviously didn't snip the disclaimer).. Now all of her collegues are doing it. They use outlook ( Big f*ing surprise ).
Funny thing is that her outlook *does* respect the sigdashes when she replies to my mail. (my sig does not come back to me, she does NOT snip my sig, Outlook does it for her)
Please explain what you are saying. From where I sit, TB *does* use them for what they were intended for. OE and Outlook do NOT insert sigdashes and I am forced to manually snip the friggin disclaimer text from mail that I receive from companies that put this disclaimer text in the sig when I reply to them.
My wife works for one of these companies that use outlook (aka offenders) and I've told her to manually insert the sigtext at the bottom of her messages so that her company's disclaimer text does not come back to her in a reply to her message (the replier obviously didn't snip the disclaimer).. Now all of her collegues are doing it. They use outlook ( Big f*ing surprise ).
Funny thing is that her outlook *does* respect the sigdashes when she replies to my mail. (my sig does not come back to me, she does NOT snip my sig, Outlook does it for her)
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Sean,
For me, Thunderbird does snip signatures that begin with a *proper* sigdash. But the sigdash line is supposed to be two dashes followed by one space on a line by itself, in other words, the sequence:
<CR><LF>-- <CR><LF>
I've often seen attempts at sigdashes where the sender left off the single space, or even added something else on the same line; I don't know of any mail/news application that treats these as sigdashes. The sigdash sequence is intentionally something fairly simple and very specific that you wouldn't be likely to want to put in a message for any other reason.
Note that my text editor can be configured to automatically delete any trailing whitespace (space characters or tab codes) from lines, and if I recall correctly, Outlook Express's editor would delete any trailing whitespace if I stored the message as a draft and then re-opened it, so the space had to be added back in before sending the message.
ausdilecce,
It's been a while since I used Outlook Express, but I do remember that although it respected a sigdash when quoting a message, it failed to insert it automatically when attaching a signature. It seems to me that I worked around that by including the sigdash as the first line of my stored signature. If your wife's software is set up so that she can have her own signature above the company's disclaimer, that may make things a bit easier for her and her colleagues.
I understand the CYA policy of including a disclaimer with any company mail, but I do wish that they'd always start the disclaimer with a sigdash.
For me, Thunderbird does snip signatures that begin with a *proper* sigdash. But the sigdash line is supposed to be two dashes followed by one space on a line by itself, in other words, the sequence:
<CR><LF>-- <CR><LF>
I've often seen attempts at sigdashes where the sender left off the single space, or even added something else on the same line; I don't know of any mail/news application that treats these as sigdashes. The sigdash sequence is intentionally something fairly simple and very specific that you wouldn't be likely to want to put in a message for any other reason.
Note that my text editor can be configured to automatically delete any trailing whitespace (space characters or tab codes) from lines, and if I recall correctly, Outlook Express's editor would delete any trailing whitespace if I stored the message as a draft and then re-opened it, so the space had to be added back in before sending the message.
ausdilecce,
It's been a while since I used Outlook Express, but I do remember that although it respected a sigdash when quoting a message, it failed to insert it automatically when attaching a signature. It seems to me that I worked around that by including the sigdash as the first line of my stored signature. If your wife's software is set up so that she can have her own signature above the company's disclaimer, that may make things a bit easier for her and her colleagues.
I understand the CYA policy of including a disclaimer with any company mail, but I do wish that they'd always start the disclaimer with a sigdash.
Regards,
James
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James,
Thanks for explaining but I did know that. ( maybe others did not, so thanks for that ) Unfortunately, my wife (or her colleages) does not have 'authorization' to change the sig . ( Authorization in this case means technical, political, etc authorization. )
Tell me about it mate. PITA
anyway cheers
Thanks for explaining but I did know that. ( maybe others did not, so thanks for that ) Unfortunately, my wife (or her colleages) does not have 'authorization' to change the sig . ( Authorization in this case means technical, political, etc authorization. )
James M. Prange wrote:I understand the CYA policy of including a disclaimer with any company mail, but I do wish that they'd always start the disclaimer with a sigdash.
Tell me about it mate. PITA
anyway cheers
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Ok, I'm totally lost, here. I created a userContent.css with .moz-txt-sig { color: gray !important; } as stated above, but it didn't work. What am I doing wrong? How do I get my sig to show with the font & color that I want? If you can explain this to me in simple terms, step by step, I'd appreciate the help!
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Greyed out signatures
I have tried Jeroen's advice about putting the code he gave in his post (with gray or black ... tried both???) into the correct chrome folder (root of chrome folder) and it has had absolutely no impact after reinitialising Thunderbird 0.8 whatsoever. Any ideas please. (I presume that this code is the only code to put in the css file?) .... the last suggestion about using an html file didn't work either. The gray setting overules everything.
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You better use this code, because the other code I gave was only for plain text messages. This works for plain text and HTML messages:
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/*
* Change color of text and links in signature (Thunderbird display only)
*/
.moz-txt-sig, .moz-signature {
color: black !important;
}
.moz-txt-sig > a, .moz-signature > a {
color: #0000FF !important;
}
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