An e-mail signature is a block of text that appears at the end of all your outgoing e-mail messages. Once set up, it is automatically appended to every e-mail message you send, unless you suppress it for a particular message. The signature can be used to automatically append your website address and/or job title to the end of your e-mails, or any other information that you would like to always send out with your messages.

Traditionally, the e-mail signature begins a new paragraph at the end of the message, and its first line begins with the characters "--".

When you set up a new message by selecting an address in the WintextCom directory, a signature is automatically appended to the message by default. You will notice that the body of the message you are starting initially contains the signature text, starting on a line beneath the cursor position. You can edit this signature to your liking by selecting

"E: Edit e-mail signature"

on the directory Dialling/Setup menu. The file containing your e-mail signature is opened in an editor for you to make and save changes. If you do not want a signature at all, blank the file so that there is no text in it, or you can switch the signature of in the settings file (it is on by default).

Note that the signature appended by WintextCom is not necessarily the same as the one used by your e-mail program when you select the new message facility. If you use both WintextCom and your e-mail program to initiate a new message and you want the signatures to be the same, go into your e-mail program's settings and specify that the text of the signature is in the file that WintextCom uses, which by default is "e-mail\signature.txt" in the WintextCom home folder.

Since WintextCom places the signature in the body of the message before you start writing it, you can edit it in-place. This may be more convenient than using WintextCom settings to omit the signature or directory entry formatting to replace it if you only require to delete it or make changes for relatively few recipients.

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Automatically Appending Text to E-mail Messages