Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures
2008-10-13
So it's been a while - I know. That's what I get for being a bit of a workaholic. On with the tech...
So I've been in search for way to have multiple signatures in Gmail. Those of you that have kept up with my blogging, or know me at all, know that I absolutely love Gmail - and pretty much all things Google. Google is in the process of creating what you may call Gmail "addons" through Gmail Labs; but even labs does not provide the ability to have mutliple signatures. Now you may ask - why is this so important? Well, I currently have 5 email accounts automatically forwarded to my primary Gmail account, and I've set up the ability to email "from" those accounts within that primary Gmail account. With that being said, I have a lot of comings in and out from that account, and I don't want a professional email signature on my personal emails and so forth. Hopefully this all makes sense.
In my search I found one such Firefox addon that does a pretty nice job of allowing me to have multiple signatures depending on the address I choose to mail from. The Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures Firefox extension is still considered "experimental" by Mozilla, but its usability makes it far from experimental in my book. Create your signatures for each email address you mail from, and voila... now every time you select that email address to mail from, the signature will automagically be inserted into your email for you. And as a bonus - the Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures has full HTML support for your signatures.
It's one of the few extensions that I couldn't do without. More on that later... for now, go download the Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures Firefox extension... if you have as many email accounts forwarded to one as I do... and a need for signatures for all of them... you'll love this extension!
Also - I should say that this extension is far better than the bookmarklets that I posted about last time. Bookmarklets are still pretty awesome... but as for signatures, this extension is the best solution around. See how long I've been in search for such greatness though?!
