Re: [PLUG] Open source Mail client

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

The short answer is "Please don't." You're inevitably going to piss
people off by setting your signature to be an image. Also there are
some of us who still read a lot of our email in text mode browsers
like mutt, and we'll ever see your signature.

If you insist on doing it anyway, the thing to understand is that
email is at its heart a text-only medium. The way programs do rich
text is by formatting it as HTML and sending it as an attachment.
Because of that legacy, any support for images in signatures is going
to be spotty and not universally supported. The Mail program on macOS,
for instance, seems to only support plain-text signatures, while
Fastmail's web GUI has its complete rich text icon bar.

Looking at Thunderbird's support page for signatures [1] it looks like
you could either pick an file to be your signature, or you could
include HTML with an IMG tag to pull the image from somewhere else.

1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/signatures

Walt

On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 05:59:47PM -0500, H Mottaleb via plug wrote:
> Thank you all for your suggestions!
> 
> Installed Thunderbird and tried playing with it today a bit. I’m having problems with setting my signature with an image.
> 
> When I try to input the image simply by copying and pasting it into the signature box and then go into "write" which is Thunderbirds version of compose, all I see are a bunch of symbols and numbers. I know that it works by using the an old HTML code but that's not the style and color of signature that I want on my emails. If there's any way I can simply copy and paste it in there that would be ideal.
> 
> > On Jan 5, 2022, at 11:10 AM, Ron Nascimento via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 15:31 +0000, Rev. LeRoy Cressy via plug wrote:
> >> Evolution:
> >> Is extremely slow when accessing protonmail bridge and gmail but on
> >> sending mail it will automatically sign the contents of your mail with
> >> gpg --clear-sign which is great.  If attachments are included the
> >> message will be signed with a detached signature.
> > 
> > I can't get the Flatpak version of Evolution to sign, keep getting 
> > 
> > `Inappropriate ioctl for device`
> > 
> > I tried everything from:
> > 
> > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51504367/gpg-agent-forwarding-inappropriate-ioctl-for-device
> > 
> > https://d.sb/2016/11/gpg-inappropriate-ioctl-for-device-errors
> > 
> > I think its a Flatpak issue, but I dont feel like
> > uninstalling/installing again right now.
> > 
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