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  <info>
    <desc>Using email signatures at the bottom of a message you send.</desc>
    
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    <credit type="author">
      <name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
      <email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
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      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
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<title>Working with email signatures</title>

<p>A signature consists of one or more lines of text (or even a picture) that will be added at the end of an email that you send. It can contain contact information or other things. A signature always begins with two dashes and a space (<code>-- </code>).</p>
<note><p>The term "signature" is also differently used in terms of <link xref="mail-encryption">encryption</link>.</p></note>
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