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Really great app, but really disappointingly appends "Sent with Sparrow" at the end of sent messages, with no preference to turn it off.

Massively uncool, even if I can delete it myself.

EDIT: Found this on the author's Twitter feed. Weird interface for what is an otherwise intuitive app: "Open the preferences window and double-click on the account. You'll be able to edit the signature."

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It's not that far-fetched to imagine that if it is appending text to your emails that you should edit the signature. :-)

Based on what other posters have mentioned, I think the OP's point is that double-clicking on a preference item is unintuitive in a Mac app.

Yeah, that's the problem. There's no reason to believe the screen is where you set your signature, let alone double-clicking would result in anything.

http://skitch.com/lewisham/d346d/preferences

Brilliantly counter-intuitive. It means that the annoying viral-hook message stays there for everyone who isn't sufficiently annoyed by it to actually go googling for how to get rid of it.

For what it's worth, I didn't waste a single click when deleting signature, went straight for it, though I agree that it is unintuitive in principle and that there were not enough contextual cues.

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