Complexe HTML in signature

[Romain Torrecilla - Bugbusters Sud-Est]

Let me introduce myself. I'm Romain, I'm french and I'm working for an IT
company in France. Unfortunatelly, my company isn't "mac friendly" yet. Only
2 of us (we are almost 250) are using Mac.
The problem is, we are all using a similar email signature for outgoing
emails. This signature is generated with HTML code and guess what: Entourage
doesn't want it. I googled for an answer but I didn't find anything. Maybe
one of your guys has a plugin to help me using my HTML signature.

Any help is welcome.

Thank y'all.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Let me introduce myself. I'm Romain, I'm french and I'm working for an IT
company in France. Unfortunatelly, my company isn't "mac friendly" yet. Only
2 of us (we are almost 250) are using Mac.
The problem is, we are all using a similar email signature for outgoing
emails. This signature is generated with HTML code and guess what: Entourage
doesn't want it. I googled for an answer but I didn't find anything. Maybe
one of your guys has a plugin to help me using my HTML signature.

Any help is welcome.

Thank y'all.

well, as you have discovered, you can use fairly basic HTML in the sig,
but the only way to do complex stuff would be to include it as an image.

Where I work we are using Exclaimer to insert complex signatures into
outgoing messages at the exchange server. Since you don't seem to have
control of the server, this may not be a viable option for you.

 

[Barry Wainwright]

Do you really think your recipients will care about this complex
signature to begin with? What's wrong with plain text?

Unfortunately, many users have little choice over this. Corporates just
love fancy signatures & disclaimers etc.

I'm responsible for all the IT in the company where I work, and I lost
the battle to retain p[lain text - we got a wonderful 12-15 line
signature foisted on us by the marketing department (including a 'slogan
line' that changes once a month).

It's dreadful.

One reason we use Exclaimer to add the signature is that we can set it
up to use a simple, single line 'name' signature for all internal
traffic and the full blown, hideous, 'in all its glory' sig for traffic
leaving the company.

I'll keep using plain text wherever I can for my own emails (unless
there is good reason to do otherwise). For corporate stuff, I'm stuck
with fancy HTML and the signature taking up more space than the body
text!

 

[Guest]

JR, who the hell are you to tell people what's appropriate for an email
signature? Get off your high horse and quit telling people how they should
run their email.

Entourage is the ONLY email program I can find that doesn't handle complex
HTML email. Entourage is the ONLY program for which I've had to go out to
newsgroups to figure stuff out.

Entourage SUCKS, and when people are trying to figure out bugs in the
program you tell them they shouldn't be using that feature anyway. You
should work for Microsoft. You already have the attitude.

For your information, Mr. Email Nazi, there are many valid applications of
complex HTML emails, and if somebody wants a fancy signature in their email,
then by God they should go ahead and do it.

 

[Diane Ross]

The problem is, we are all using a similar email signature for outgoing
emails. This signature is generated with HTML code and guess what: Entourage
doesn't want it. I googled for an answer but I didn't find anything. Maybe
one of your guys has a plugin to help me using my HTML signature.

Any help is welcome.

Entourage doesn't do complex HTML well. See this page for help.

HTML Newsletters, Messages & Signatures

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/html_msg.html>

 

[Ed Kimball]

I am employed by a fortune 500 corporation. We love our disclaimers too;
but you won't see fancy HTML garbage in *my* email messages. There's a
proper place for that sort of thing, and email ain't it.

How long do you think you will still be working for this company if you
unilaterally decide not to follow their standard for sending e-mail (or any
other corporate communication) and someone who cares finds out? I'm sure the
company disagrees with your perception that mail you are sending from
corporate computers is *your* e-mail and not the corporation's -- and the
courts support the corporation.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately this has digressed into a thread about Jolly Roger, and a
philosophical debate about the merits of HTML email.

So, Jolly Roger, for the record, we don't care about your day job, or how
you would handle a boss telling you how to format mails, or what you would
do about it. And your record of long standing employment doesn't make me
feel any differently about your attitude here. We don't care to hear your
philosophy on the demerits of HTML email communication.

We come here looking for answers to why such a basic and prevalent feature
in all email clients is so hopelessly broken in Entourage. Aside from your
own strong opinions about HTML email, some of us count on it for many
things. So your derogatory comments such as "oh boo hoo, cry me a river" and
other such pejorative crap aren't really being well received. For the
record, I find you and your comments offensive. We're here for answers, and
sometimes to see if others are running into the same problems, but we're
certainly not here for pedantic lectures from the likes of you.