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I have a file full of quotations that I would like to include in my GMail signature at random. Is there a way to do this?
The random signature feature from Google Labs has been retired:
http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs-help-random-signature/browse_thread/thread/a816758b1f4d9b8e#
Currently there is no way.
You'll have to trim or remove the quoted text yourself.
You can make use of the "Quote selected text" labs module by highlighting some blank space in the email and replying to that.
That will then leave you with something along the lines of:
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Example <mail@example.com> wrote:
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Which is far less than before, but sadly still not as empty as wanted.
Google recently announced support for rich text in signatures. That means you can now configure the font family, size and color, as well as insert images into the signature. Just go to your gmail settings and you'll find it right there, no need to enable as a lab feature or anything! It's possible it hasn't been expanded to Google Apps for your domain yet, in which case it should be coming pretty soon.
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Best Answer
I found a couple quotes from Steve Jobs and Joel Spolsky that I really liked, so I put them in my Gmail signature. I didn't want to forget them as I found other quotes, so I just added them in as well. However, now my signature is longer than the actual emails I was sending, so I, like the question asker, wanted a way to be able to collect my quotes and inject them randomly into my signature.
I couldn't find a working solution, so I held a little mini, solo hackathon in my apartment that started at about 10pm and ended at 3am, once I pushed the code to Github. You can download Random Gmail Quotes from my Github page and install it as an unpacked extension. To replace the quotes I picked, simply edit the quotes.js file -- in your user profile directory -- and replace them with your own. DISCLAIMER: I wrote the extension.
There is another similar Chrome extension on the Chrome Web Store called Random Quotes, but it's two years old and stopped working. However, unlike mine, it has a nice UI where you can paste in your quotes. So, I installed it, figured out what the problem was, fixed it, and submitted a patch to the author's Github account. If you install this one, and you know what you're doing, you can swap out the bsearch.js file with the one I submitted in the issue ticket I created on that author's Github account.
Hope this helps!