I use Thunderbird 1.5 at work in a corporate environment (Linux) and was wondering if there is a way to enable my signature as "Rich" or "HTML" text rather than just pointing the signature to a plain text .txt file.

I tried saving the file in Open Office Writter as a .doc or an .odt file and then pointing Thunderbird to use that as my signature but it can't read it. It just shows strange characters like it can't decode the file or something. I know in Outlook you can create and add HTML or Rich signature attachments but I can't do this in Thunderbird.

Thanks for any help!

have you tried inclusing html tags in the text file that you point to ? like

see if that works ..

I saved the file actually as HTML rather than .txt and it worked fine.