- Step 1: Before adding an HTML signature to your Mac Mail, install the text editor that supports the HTML page.
- Step 2: Next, launch the Mail app on your Mac.
- Step 3: Click the Mail menu and select Preferences from the drop-down menu.
- Step 4: In the displayed window, click the Signatures tab.
- Step 5: Click the Add icon at the bottom of the column to create a new signature.
- Step 6: Name the signature in the displayed column as placeholder text or based on your wish.
- Step 7: Make sure that you have deselected the Always match my default message font checkbox.
- Step 8: Drag your signature name in the second column to your email account displayed in the first column.
- Step 9: Close the Preferences window as well as the Mail app.
- Step 10: Now on proceeding with how to add HTML signature to Mac mail steps, open the text editor app and create an HTML page.
- Step 11: Make sure not to include ‘html’ or ‘head’ tags in the HTML page.
- Step 12: After creating an HTML page, open it using the TextEdit app.
- Step 13: To do so, launch the TextEdit app and select Preferences.
- Step 14: Click the Open and Save tab and check the Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text checkbox.
- Step 15: Next, open Finder and click the Go menu.
- Step 16: Select the Go to Folder option from the drop-down menu and type ‘~Library/Mail/’ in the text field.
- Step 17: Press the Enter key to open the folders list.
- Step 18: Select the Mail folder and open MailData followed by Signatures.
- Step 19: Paste the HTML signature with TextEdit.
- Step 20: If you aren’t able to open the Signatures folder, use the iCloud drive and proceed with how to add HTML signature to Mac mail guide.
- Step 21: To do so, click the Apple menu at the top-left corner of the screen and select the System Preferences option.
- Step 22: In the System Preferences window, click on iCloud and check the iCloud Drive checkbox.
- Step 23: Click the Options button and check the Mail checkbox.
- Step 24: Next, launch the Terminal app from Utilities.
- Step 25: Type the ‘ls -laht ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~mail/Data/V4/Signatures/’ command and press Enter.
- Step 26: Next, type the ‘open -a TextEdit ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com\~apple\~mail/Data/V4/Signatures/*.mailsignature’ command and press the Enter key to open the signature in the TextEdit app.
- Step 27: Ensure that your placeholder file is within the HTML code.
- Step 28: Select all the codes starting with ‘body’ and delete them.
- Step 29: With metadata lines on the top, place your HTML code at the bottom.
- Step 30: Save the file and close the TextEdit app.
- Step 31: To check the created HTML signature, launch the Mail app.
- Step 32: Open the New Email window and click the Signature drop-down arrow.
- Step 33:Atlast on using how to add HTML signature to Mac mail steps, Select your HTML signature from the drop-down list and check if it has been added to the New Email window.