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MySigMail – UI Email Signature Generator

36 points by antonreshetov 8y ago

lbj 8y ago
This is awesome, very well done!
- antonreshetov 8y ago
  Thanks!
davzie 8y ago
This is really great! I've wanted something that builds a simple, beautiful signature like this for some time! Thanks!
- antonreshetov 8y ago
  Enjoy )
Someone1234 8y ago
This isn't a criticism, just a note to others. I'd caution others against using the embedded image functionality even if it seems cleaner/more reliable. It bloats out the size of the email you're sending too much. For example I added a 5 KB JPG image, populated all the default fields, and the resulting HTML was 70 KB. This seems to be the result of BASE64's inefficiency. You could alternatively upload the image to e.g. Amazon's S3 and link to it instead. That way you have completely control, and there's some redundancy there. According to my back of napkin maths, Amazon's S3 would cost less than 5c/month, assuming millions of requests, and the same 5 KB thumbnail. I really like this open source project in general. Again, this is in no way a criticism of them, there's no other way I know of to embed an image.
- marpstar 8y ago
  Agreed. A single 5KB email isn't bad, it's when that email turns into a back-and-forth chain of emails with your signature attached to each reply.
- mgkimsal 8y ago
  > According to my back of napkin maths, Amazon's S3 would cost less than 5c/month, assuming millions of requests You might need a bigger napkin. For 1 million requests, S3 will cost you $0.40, excluding storage or other transfer costs. 5 million would be $2. It's not free, but also '5c/month for millions of requests' is a tad bit off.
  - captn3m0 8y ago
    GMail also caches images these days.
  - Someone1234 8y ago
    May I ask how you got that figure? Using Amazon's S3 calculator here, I am getting sub 10c: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html This is assuming a 5 KB image, no free tier, US East, S3 Standard, and at least 1m requests (GET/SELECT). I'm including data out and data transfer.
    - mgkimsal 8y ago
      https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ GET, SELECT and all other Requests $0.0004 per 1,000 requests 1000 * 1000 is $0.40 for the requests. On the calculator link you sent, I put in "1000000" in the GET/SELECT requests, and see "Estimate of your Monthly Bill ($ 0.39)"
      - Someone1234 8y ago
        Looks like I was mistaken. Thanks for the correction.
        mgkimsal 8y ago
        no worries - 40c is still not 'much' by most standards.
- quietbritishjim 8y ago
  If you link to an image from an email (with an <img> tag) then: * It looks like you're tracking which recipients read your email and when. Spammers do this a lot (or rather they used to) with single-pixel images called "tracking beacons". You send an email to millions of people, give each one a slightly different <img> link, look at the server log to see which images got downloaded, and those are your suckers. * Because of the previous point, most email clients don't load images from external sources by default. They pop up a little notification bar saying something scary like "Click here to load unsafe images", because "Click here to load external images that might cause spammers to see whether you've looked at the email" is too complex. So your emails all now come with a scary warning, and most people won't see your image anyway.
beart 8y ago
Copy as HTML is not working in Firefox
- antonreshetov 8y ago
  Firefox has its own opinion on this matter. We'll have to think about a solution. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Interact_with_the_clipboard https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
OliverJones 8y ago
Whatever happened to the simple line of text for a sig? My Name * Developer * Excellent Company * me@example.com * +1.212.555.1212
- vb6lives 8y ago
  Nothing happened to it. If you like your one liner, keep using it. You don't have to use this tool.
duncan-donuts 8y ago
This is cool, but I think you need to add some clarity around the "project" tab. I thought I was adding some sort of link/info for a project that I've worked on that would be relevant in a signature. I deleted the default one and the entire signature was deleted. I think "Projects" is a really bad name for this.
- alok99 8y ago
  Agreed. I had the same experience. I think just calling it "Signatures" would be better.
- antonreshetov 8y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion! It is worth thinking about changing the name of tab Projects for better UX
toun 8y ago
I was wondering if it was possible to sign emails on the mail server instead of configuring each client individually. Also annoying is the fact that some clients seem to alter the signature before sending the message, resulting in the utter destruction of my magnificent design. I have seen some tools like alterMIME but nothing specifically designed to insert signatures to the right place. Ideally some kind of milter for Postfix I guess.

36 points by antonreshetov 8y ago

lbj 8y ago

This is awesome, very well done!

antonreshetov 8y ago
Thanks!

davzie 8y ago

This is really great! I've wanted something that builds a simple, beautiful signature like this for some time! Thanks!

antonreshetov 8y ago
Enjoy )

Someone1234 8y ago

This isn't a criticism, just a note to others. I'd caution others against using the embedded image functionality even if it seems cleaner/more reliable. It bloats out the size of the email you're sending too much. For example I added a 5 KB JPG image, populated all the default fields, and the resulting HTML was 70 KB. This seems to be the result of BASE64's inefficiency. You could alternatively upload the image to e.g. Amazon's S3 and link to it instead. That way you have completely control, and there's some redundancy there. According to my back of napkin maths, Amazon's S3 would cost less than 5c/month, assuming millions of requests, and the same 5 KB thumbnail. I really like this open source project in general. Again, this is in no way a criticism of them, there's no other way I know of to embed an image.

marpstar 8y ago
Agreed. A single 5KB email isn't bad, it's when that email turns into a back-and-forth chain of emails with your signature attached to each reply.
mgkimsal 8y ago
> According to my back of napkin maths, Amazon's S3 would cost less than 5c/month, assuming millions of requests You might need a bigger napkin. For 1 million requests, S3 will cost you $0.40, excluding storage or other transfer costs. 5 million would be $2. It's not free, but also '5c/month for millions of requests' is a tad bit off.
- captn3m0 8y ago
  GMail also caches images these days.
- Someone1234 8y ago
  May I ask how you got that figure? Using Amazon's S3 calculator here, I am getting sub 10c: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html This is assuming a 5 KB image, no free tier, US East, S3 Standard, and at least 1m requests (GET/SELECT). I'm including data out and data transfer.
  - mgkimsal 8y ago
    https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ GET, SELECT and all other Requests $0.0004 per 1,000 requests 1000 * 1000 is $0.40 for the requests. On the calculator link you sent, I put in "1000000" in the GET/SELECT requests, and see "Estimate of your Monthly Bill ($ 0.39)"
    - Someone1234 8y ago
      Looks like I was mistaken. Thanks for the correction.
      - mgkimsal 8y ago
        no worries - 40c is still not 'much' by most standards.
quietbritishjim 8y ago
If you link to an image from an email (with an <img> tag) then: * It looks like you're tracking which recipients read your email and when. Spammers do this a lot (or rather they used to) with single-pixel images called "tracking beacons". You send an email to millions of people, give each one a slightly different <img> link, look at the server log to see which images got downloaded, and those are your suckers. * Because of the previous point, most email clients don't load images from external sources by default. They pop up a little notification bar saying something scary like "Click here to load unsafe images", because "Click here to load external images that might cause spammers to see whether you've looked at the email" is too complex. So your emails all now come with a scary warning, and most people won't see your image anyway.

beart 8y ago

Copy as HTML is not working in Firefox

antonreshetov 8y ago
Firefox has its own opinion on this matter. We'll have to think about a solution. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Interact_with_the_clipboard https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

OliverJones 8y ago

Whatever happened to the simple line of text for a sig? My Name * Developer * Excellent Company * me@example.com * +1.212.555.1212

vb6lives 8y ago
Nothing happened to it. If you like your one liner, keep using it. You don't have to use this tool.

duncan-donuts 8y ago

This is cool, but I think you need to add some clarity around the "project" tab. I thought I was adding some sort of link/info for a project that I've worked on that would be relevant in a signature. I deleted the default one and the entire signature was deleted. I think "Projects" is a really bad name for this.

alok99 8y ago
Agreed. I had the same experience. I think just calling it "Signatures" would be better.
antonreshetov 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! It is worth thinking about changing the name of tab Projects for better UX

toun 8y ago

I was wondering if it was possible to sign emails on the mail server instead of configuring each client individually. Also annoying is the fact that some clients seem to alter the signature before sending the message, resulting in the utter destruction of my magnificent design. I have seen some tools like alterMIME but nothing specifically designed to insert signatures to the right place. Ideally some kind of milter for Postfix I guess.