If you haven’t physically moved any of the files or changed the names, the HTML document should look perfect.At this point, you can also customize the “base text” that appears when you select the Stationery in Mail. Open the content.html file (if it’s not still open) to make sure your images have updated in the HTML. Keep the background simple unless you really know what you’re doing. As you can see in the image above, I created a completely new “top.jpg” file to replace the Sand Dollar and paper background. Obviously the file named top.jpg is the “masthead” of the template where you can place a logo, photo or whatever you wish. Once you’ve decided on your design, simply open each of the four. Open the content.html file just to get an idea of what the final template will look like. Here you will see seven files and a folder.

Go ahead an open the Content/Resources folders until you see the basic files for the Stationery template. Step 3:Ĭontrol+Click (right-click) on the Sand Dollar.mailstationery file on your desktop and select Show Package Contents.Īnother folder will open. We want to work on a copy of the file, not the original. Option-drag the Sand Dollar.mailstationery file to your desktop. Go ahead and open the Stationery/Contents/Resources folder. Step 2:įor the sake of keeping it easy in this tutorial, I chose to base my customized email off of one of Apple’s built-in templates called Sand Dollar Stationery. They are Birthday, Announcements, Photos, Stationery, and Sentiments. Inside this folder, you’ll see five more folders named the way you see them in Mail when you click the Stationery button in the upper right corner of new emails. Navigate to the root level of your Macintosh hard drive and go to: Library/Application Support/Apple/Mail/Stationery/ Apple/Contents/Resources png files, and an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver (or just text edit if you’re a die-hard HTML coder). If you enjoy Leopard’s new Mail Stationery for sending beautiful HTML email, but wished you could personalize it more, read on for some very good news!Apple has made Mail’s new Stationery feature quite easy to edit to your heart’s content, as long as you have an image editor that can save. While not much has changed, I’ve edited it for a bit more clarity. This tutorial has been updated for Snow Leopard users! Please visit the updated article here.

Custom mail stationery