[dba-Tech] Force (HTML) footer in Exchange Server.

> From: "Erwin Craps - IT Helps" <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be>

> Can I force a (HTML) footer for every E-mail that leaves the company
> through Exchange Server (either 5.5 or 2K)?
> Or some way to centralize a uniform footer for everyone, Name & Function
> including.

Let me start off by saying that I am not an Exchange Admin. Never seen it. Never tried to do anything with it.

Be careful with forcing HTML footers, or any HTML content. You may inadvertantly alienate or out and out p*ss off your clients.

There are lots of folks out there that want no part of HTML mail and will uncerimoniously delete it.

You may also inadvertantly prevent folks that use the server for their e-mail from subscribing to some lists that will only accept plain text. There is one list I belong to that AOL users cannot subscribe to until they jump though hoop because some of the newer versions make it extremely difficult to turn off HTML mail.

Just my $0.02 CAD.

Why exactly do you want an HTML footer? If it is for clickable links in the footer, that is an e-mail client function and not a content function. What I mean is that the user's mail client will make the link clickable if it is a properly formed URL.

The e-mail client I use will make a link clickable if is in the form of http://some.dom.ain, even if the e-mail is plain text.


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Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
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