How to set a signature to be added to new messages

E-mail signatures provide a great way to personalize and automate certain features of your e-mail correspondence. Using signatures you can enrich each individual message by adding plain text, pictures, links or a business card and make it more appealing to friends and family, clients, partners and business associates. In this article, we'll focus on how to add signatures using the most popular e-mail applications - Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail, plus the three webmail clients your hosting Control Panel is equipped with - Horde, SupremeWebMail and RoundCube Webmail.

Microsoft Outlook

Once you have configured your e-mail account successfully in Outlook, please navigate to the Tools > Options section. Locate the tab named Mail Format, click on it and then select Signatures. A new configuration window will appear where you'll need to click on New and choose a name for your signature (if you have more than one e-mail account set up in Outlook, you will also need to specify the appropriate account for the new signature). Once you have done that, you can customize your signature with different fonts, text size, alignment, as well as pictures or hypertext links. As a final step, please click on OK in both menus and from this point onward, all outgoing e-mails will contain your newly created signature.

Mozilla Thunderbird

In the popular open-source e-mail client Thunderbird, signatures are handled using external files. This means that you need to create a new plain text or HTML file and then "tell" Thunderbird where it is located so that it could be used as a signature in your e-mails. Once you have created a .txt or an .html file with your signature, open Thunderbrd and go to Tools > Account Settings. In the following menu, please navigate to your e-mail account and select the box that says Attach this signature, click on Choose and locate the signature file using the navigation window. You are also free to add the same file to as many e-mail accounts as you want. Once you are done, click on OK.

Apple Mail

Beside Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac users can also take advantage of the Mail application that comes built-in with every Mac OS X installation. Adding signatures is done by selecting the Mail drop-down menu and clicking on Preferences (shortcut keys - ,). Navigate to the Signatures menu and feel free to create new signatures for different e-mail accounts using the + button.

Horde webmail

Once logged into Horde, choose the Options link and then click on Personal Information. A new window will appear with different e-mail customization options. Near the bottom of the screen, you can see the Your signature field where you can enter a signature (text) that would be applied to your e-mail messages. Once done, please click on Save Options.

SupremeWebMail

In order to add a signature via SupremeWebMail, click on Options and on the next page locate the Signature field near the bottom-right end of your screen. Enter a signature to be added to all new e-mails and once you are done, click on Update Settings.

RoundCube webmail

In RoundCube, signatures are located under the Settings menu. Once there, please select the third tab Identities. By default, you have only one identity for your account, click on it and a new menu will appear with various options like Display Name and Reply To text fields. The last one is Signature where you need to add your personalized text (by selecting the HTML signature box below, a new, extended field will load for you with additional settings). Feel free to click Save as soon as you have completed the changes to save them.