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iPhone 101: Updating your "Sent from my iPhone" email signature
Is that "Sent from my iPhone" message starting to get on your nerves? By default, every email sent from your iPhone gets appended by a signature specified in Settings > Mail > Signature. To clear out this signature entirely, delete all the text from the Signature text field. Your emails will lose that "Sent from my iPhone" tag.
Of course, if signatures don't particularly bother you, you might want to add a more personalized quote or even some contact information (although preferably not using unnecessary ASCII art). Or, you can put on your antipersonnel hat and start messing with people's minds, e.g. "Sent from my Blueberry." How do you intend to sign your emails?
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Josh H. said 12:41PM on 7-20-2007
Mine signature is "Sent from my iPhone...jealous? Josh at mntdev.com" and its funny cuz everytime I sent an email the person replys with "yes i am jealous" or something of the sort
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kory said 12:42PM on 7-20-2007
yeah, i catch a lot of crap for mine. mine's currently:
(sent from my iphone)
people are just jealous, i think, that's all. why doesn't anyone complain about the "sent from blackberry wireless device" or whatever it says when you receive an email from a blackberry? cause blackberrys BLOW, that's why. (;
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punkassjim said 1:08PM on 7-20-2007
http://209.237.250.100/news/culture/21836/
I liked Rob Corddry's ideas on suicidegirls:
-Sent from my iPhone
-Sent from my iPhone, bitch.
-Sent from my $600 iPhone
-Swnt elom m iphon
-Sent from my ipwn
-You’ve been iPhoned
-I have more money than you
-Sent from the Future
-I have an iPhone. Now will you fuck me?
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Grammar freak said 1:34PM on 7-20-2007
Out the country but the blueberry still connect.
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jasonwrites said 1:50PM on 7-20-2007
The default was cool for a couple of days but then I just started to feel like a d-bag. But I do like that people know I'm away from my desk so I changed mine to "sent from my portable telephone machine." Can modesty and iPhone be friends? I believe so.
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tim said 1:53PM on 7-20-2007
something tells me that due to this being the same thing you do in any mail app, erica, who just cant get enough iphone posts in, set hers, thought it was cute and needed to show people. so what to do? create a post on TUAW, because it is essential.
call it a tip if you want, but its no more so than say changing your icon in ichat.
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Brady J. Frey said 1:54PM on 7-20-2007
Disgusting as this question is... has anyone figured if you can HTML signature this puppy? I'm sure if I had some copy/paste functionality I could get around it, but so far, no dice.
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Graham Hall said 2:11PM on 7-20-2007
Mine will say: "Proudly typed on an iPhone" :)
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Gary Brinkman said 2:29PM on 7-20-2007
I just use my standard email signature:
I gotta tell ya, at this point, the length of this conversation is way out of proportion to my interest in it.
/bonus points if you know where that came from.
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jack.givens said 2:46PM on 7-20-2007
With all the hype it sure looks like bragging. I change mine to say "Sent from a small mobile device designed in Cupertino"
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jon Smithe said 3:35PM on 7-20-2007
mine would say--send from protype Micro Soft phone-coming 2012
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Andrew Hintz said 3:13PM on 7-20-2007
I'm just waiting for Apple to enable per-account signatures. As it stands, it is tough to use when I receive both work and personal email and want different signatures for each.
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Frank said 3:33PM on 7-20-2007
mine says "sent from a secret location on my iphone", but some of these other suggestions are so good i might modify mine...
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thepants said 3:40PM on 7-20-2007
gary: sports night :)
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Kingbee said 3:44PM on 7-20-2007
Sent from my iPhone. Ever heard of it?
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PK said 4:11PM on 7-20-2007
I received my iPhone as a surprise birthday gift from my wife, so I e-mailed my family & friends the next day with a note saying only that my wife is amazing and that I had an incredible birthday. The kicker was the signature, which caused such numerous replies as "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" and "iJealous" and "Your wife is AWESOME!"
Otherwise, I've added a dashed line above the signature, so that it better separates from the body of the e-mail. And I'll keep the whole thing going for a few more months or until I really start to look like a tool, whichever comes first.
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mdc said 4:37PM on 7-20-2007
My signature is:
Mike
Never understood the Sent from BlackBerry/iPhone thing.
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Mojo said 5:01PM on 7-20-2007
What's an "antipersonnel hat"?
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lauren said 6:58PM on 7-21-2007
you'd think tuaw would have a link at the top of their page that could redirect you to all of their posts that AREN'T about the iphone. there wouldn't be much content but some of us didn't get an iphone and don't care to read all about it.
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Gary Brinkman said 12:38PM on 7-21-2007
mdc
That is usually so coworkers know you are away from your pc email. I guess like setting your away status on AIM, etc.
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