- Computing Services

Email

New page give feedback

Contact abuse

Contact

If you have been sent an email asking for your university username and password

Contact us:

Abuse@bath.ac.uk

 

 

Ask YouGuru

Go to YouGuru
 
Burst16 YouGuru support network

Home → University of Bath - BUCS - Email → guidelines → Email Signatures → html signature with image

Thunderbird signatures with images

 

Please note: using HTML and images in your emails will significantly increase the size of the email you send through and your signature will not display correctly if your recipients client cannot render HTML

In Thunderbird the way to create a signature that includes an images is by attaching a html file as the signature.

Below is an example of doing this using the University logo.

 

logo
Your Name, Job title  University of Bath
Building, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom | Telephone: +44 (0)1225 38xxxx | Email: xxxxxx@bath.ac.uk

 

  1. To achieve the above cut and paste the below HTML into notepad:

 

<div id="sig" style="min-width: 680px; min-height: 82px; line-height: 18px; padding: 24px 0 0 30px; border-top: 1px #CCC solid; border-bottom: 1px #CCC solid; font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: #999999;">
 <a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk" title="bath.ac.uk">            
      <img src="http://www.bath.ac.uk/homepage/images/logos/logo.gif" alt="University of Bath" style="float: left; border: none;" />        
      </a>
      <div style="margin-left: 189px; padding-left: 12px; border-left: solid 2px #CCC;">
          <span style="display: block; font-size:14px; color: #404040; margin-bottom: 6px;">Your Name, Job title&nbsp;</span>            
          <strong><a href="http://www.bath.ac.uk" title="bath.ac.uk" style="color: #999999; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px #999999 dotted;">University of Bath</a></strong><br />
          Building, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom | Telephone: +44 (0)1225 38xxxx | Email: xxxxxx@bath.ac.uk</div>

<div style="clear:both">&nbsp;</div>
  1. While in notepad add your name, your Job title, the University building you work in, your telephone and your email address in the areas highlighted below

ImageSig1

Please note: to change the image you will need to change the 'img src' address

  1. Click File and then Save as

ImageSig2

 

  1. Give it a File name  like PictureSignature.html making sure you give it the .html extension then select Save

ImageSig3

Enable HTML in Thunderbird

1. Open Thunderbird, click Tools then Account Settings

tickhtml

2. Select Composition & Addressing

tickhtml1

3. If it is not already selected, tick Compose messages in HTMl format click OK

tickhtml2

 

  1. Once you have created your signature and enabled html in thunderbird you can follow the instructions on how to add a signature to your thunderbird client