Comments on: How to create customized OS X Mail stationery in Snow Leopard

By: haidee

haidee — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:08:56 +0000

I followed the steps but I’m confused till i get to step no.6. After editing those 4images i saved them as different filename on the same folder and not replacing the original file. (e.g. top.jpg > image1.jpg) Is that correct? or i need to replace the original top.jpg with my edited image1.jpg file? because when i open the content.html I’m still getting the sand dollar stationary and not the images i made. Im not sure what to do here and might be loosing some file. Please help. Thanks a lot.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 03:00:08 +0000

Looks great – will try it out tomorrow. Anyone have any idea though why when I try to send an email using the mail templates why all the graphics get sent as an attachment and only the text is readable? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:48:42 +0000

Bless your little heart. I haven’t done it yet, but I can see that it’ll work and you’ve told me what I need to know.
Thank You.
Gail

By: fred

fred — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:00:56 +0000

Be sure to NOT change the name of the content.html file to “whatever you wish to name your file.”

He is referring to the header inside the html code, not the name of the file itself. My daughter did this and it took forever to realize the mistake.

Your description matched our problem, so hopefully this will solve your issue.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:06:04 +0000

This has been great. I am confused on how to change the text to make it your own. When I open content.html it opens in my browser. (I double click on it) I change the text to what I want and then go to file so I can save it. There is only save as and when I do that it won’t work. If I try to pull the content.html into photoshop it won’t let me. Please help. I am so frustrated.

Thanks

By: Mike ONeill

Mike ONeill — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:43:02 +0000

It almost worked! When I re-open mail I can see the stationery icon for what I created. But when I click on the icon it don’t do nothing – it will slightly hang up Mail. The stationery doesn’t open up in my text window. Any suggestions, from anyone. Thanks.

By: Green

Green — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:23:20 +0000

I should note that I have given my stationary a new ID generated from Terminal.

By: Green

Green — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 21:06:02 +0000

Everything works great until I try to send. Then I get the message: “This message cannot be sent because it uses stationery and contains attachments that are not images.” Lisa on 10/7/2010 posted the same problem with no replies. I’m running 10.6.8 on a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. Any advice would be much appreciated!

By: James

James — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:11:36 +0000

Thanks for providing that link. I’ve never seen it before, nor have I read the entire thing – but it appears it will be quite helpful. The PDF download in particular!

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:28:31 +0000

You might want to also point people to the official documentation to avoid some issues — http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/MailArticles/Introduction/Introduction.html

I just spent a few hours tracking down a problem for a web designer client that had built several custom templates based on this post. (Not your fault he just had several templates with the same UUID which didn’t make Mail very happy).

Cheers

Craig