Problem with Signature and message body

[Gary Clark]

I have written an Outlook Com Addin (VB6) that modifies
the body of the mail message being sent. It adds a header
to the begining of the message before it is sent. The
problem is, if a forwarded message (that has an auto added
signature) is sent, another signature is inserted into the
message(body) prior to the header I add. If I look at the
message during processing it is correct, however when you
go back into outlook and open the message the additional
siginature is inserted prior to the header. I have not
been able to find where (programmatically) I can find how
the signature is added and maybe I can turn it off. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

The signature settings are specific to each user and are set in Tools |
Options.

 

[John Covert]

Gary,

Are you saying that the Signature gets added to the message TWICE? Once
when the Inspector is opened and once AFTER your code runs and adds its
header?

John

 

[John Covert]

Interestingly, Sue, I am seeing the same thing here this morning. My Add In
gets the Body of an email, changes it, then attempts to send it. But if I
say:

oMailItem.Body = stringMyNewBody

The result is the new body PRECEDED by the signature.

If I say:

oMailItem.Body = ""

the oMailItem.Body is populated with the Signature. I cannot clear
oMailItem.Body. UNLESS I set .BodyHTML to "". Then I can do with .Body as
I please.

Bottom line appears to be that (this is OL2002) is .BodyFormat = 1, then the
Body property cannot be set correctly.

John

 

[John Covert]

Also for posterity:

In my code, no matter what I set MailItem.Body to be, it becomes the
signature. I added some code to first .Save the MailItem, and then setting
..Body works well.

John