I'm not sure, since I'm not sitting front of a Mac right now, but I think that only works with IMAP accounts, not POP.

Ooops, I was testing on IMAP.

Also--is the signature bug a known thing?

I did Google for the signature bug and didn't come up with anything.

In preferences under composing, what do you have "Send new mail from:" set to?

In preferences under composing, what do you have "Send new mail from:" set to?

The address with the sigs. But when I'm replying to mail sent to another account, it comes up with the right email address and has the Signature option showing nothing but "None" which is selected. When I reselect it, the primary account sig disappears.

I'm going to try putting a blank sig in and tie it to one of the other accounts and see if that stops things.

I'm not sure, since I'm not sitting front of a Mac right now, but I think that only works with IMAP accounts, not POP.

it does with IMAP, but it's features are more limited with POP. I've liked using the mail.app with gmail, but it's annoying having to go back and filter/sort/delete messages on the web. I tend to migrate back and forth between using it on mail and using it on the web.

I just don't get it. I've assigned that email account a simple signature, set Choose Signature to be Signature #34, the one I want, but when I reply to an email sent to it, although the identity is right, the Signature option says None, and I have a random sig from the other account. I can then choose Signature #34 and it cleans things up--no improvement at all.

I went and turned the main address signature option to None, and then there are no signatures for any of the other accounts unless chosen manually.

This is silly.

eta: it seems to pull new sigs from whatever account is selected to send new mail from, even when it's not sending mail from that account.

I'm seeing the same thing. It looks like a bug. Do you want to report it or should I?

Okay, new question in my neverending computer upgrade:

I tried to hook my old hard drive up as a slave to the new 200gb drive. I set the jumper on the new one to "master with slave present." The old drive surprisingly does not have a jumper diagram on the outside. I left the jumper off that drive and hoped it would let the other drive's master setting and its cable position do the selecting, but when I turned it on like that, the computer didn't like that and decided there was no boot drive. I unhooked the old drive and booted up again.

So, my question is, are jumper setting more or less universal across similar drives (ATA)? Can I use the jumper diagram from another drive to figure out what setting to use on the old drive? Or would I be able to find jumper settings with just a little Google time?

They differ based on manufacturer and drive model. Go to the manufacturers website and you can usually track down the model number and get the jumper settings.

Thanks, ND.

Well phooey. I can't find the jumper for the old hard drive. Can I just go down to Radio Shack and buy a hard drive jumper?

Sean, is your CD-ROM on a separate IDE cable from your hard drive? If so, just unplug the cable from the CD-ROM and plug it into your old hard drive. If it defaults to master without a jumper, it should work fine if it's on its own cable.

ETA: I'm assuming in the above you're just planning on plugging the old drive in long enough to get the data off of it, not leaving it there permanently.