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Mac 101: Create Custom Email Stationery

by Cory Bohon Sep 8th 2008 at 8:00AM


Have you used Mail's stationery and thought that it was too limiting or did not appeal to your tastes? With a simple save button, you can create your own stationery to be exactly the way you want it. Just create a new Mail message, filling in the body as you see fit -- use special formatting, colors, even filler text.

When you have completed your stationery template, click File > Save As Stationery. A dialog box will prompt you to name your new creation. Enter a descriptive title and click "Save." Your new stationery will appear under "Custom" whenever you click the "Show Stationery" button in a new mail message. Clicking your template name will automatically recreate your template in the body of the new message.

This is handy for businesses or individuals who need to have custom formatted emails, and need them to be uniform each time they send them.


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MARKWISE

how can I add the logo of my company to the newly created stationery ?

I ahve prepared a sationery added the logi it look ok I have savedit , but each time I want to use it the logo is replaced by a lego brick with a question mark

Looking forward receiving your input

October 06 2008 at 4:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
RodD

I've tried this at home. I've tried this with the guys in an Apple shop. But it doesn't work. When you go to pull up your stationery for an email message it doesn't recognise the pics - I've tried my logo in Jpeg, tiff, photoshop. Nothing works. If anyone has got it working, please let me know. Thanks. Rod

October 02 2008 at 11:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Markito

I originally loved the idea of "Stationary" on Mac Mail, but always worried if my recipient actually saw it the way I sent it. (Does that make any sense?)

Does everyone: Mac user, PC user, Linux user, etc. see my mail in the same stationary format?

I just get the weird feeling that they sometimes don't. And if they don't, my message will look messed up and a little confusing.

Or does it work on all formats, but not for people who have their incoming email pref on PlainText, not HTML mail?

Or am I just wrong and Mac's Stationary Mail works for everyone every single time regardless of their computer or prefs?

Please chime in regarding your own experiences.
Thanks so much,

'kito

September 08 2008 at 1:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Linda

I tried it several times and sent it to a friend. The pictures I put in never made it to her. Didn't work. Was disappointed!

September 08 2008 at 7:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
alansky

@Shunnabunich:

I just tried this and it didn't work correctly. My Dreamweaver page ended up in a Mail message window alright, but the images linked to the page were left behind.

Anyone else figure out how to preview Dreamweaver pages in Safari, then paste them into Mail with the "Mail contents of this page" command?

September 08 2008 at 12:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
markie

HTML email makes the baby Jesus cry. That is all.

September 08 2008 at 11:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eric f

Nice simple tip. I've used Stationary a bit but never knew about this.

September 08 2008 at 10:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
yoink!

Another tip:

Go to any website you like (Safari only) and select File/ Mail contents of this page. (Cmnd+I)

Safari will place that entire web page into a new email message. Then select File/ Save As Stationery. It'll show up in your Custom list. Alter that page with your own graphics / text etc.

September 08 2008 at 9:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Shunnabunich

Hey, could that method be used to "roll your own" in, say, Dreamweaver, and save the stationery from a preview? I imagine that could make it pretty easy to make custom-styled messages to match your website without having to switch email clients. (I'd try it, I'm just too lazy right now, heh.)

September 08 2008 at 11:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
malcolm

http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml

September 08 2008 at 9:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dee

what about creating real new templates???
there must be a way....

September 08 2008 at 8:48 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
M

Anyway to make this permanent for every email sent. Like setting it as a default so when you open a new message or more importantly reply to a message? Thanks

September 08 2008 at 8:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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