Graphic inline Signature

[Julian Field]

Dave Jones wrote:
>> Dave Jones wrote:
>>     
>>>>> Would it be possible to use some tag in the html so that MailScanner
>>>>> could evaluate/find to not duplicate if found?  Maybe use the alt=
>>>>> text to determine if the image and the alt= text already exists?  Or
>>>>> if there is an accurate method to detect a reply or forward from the
>>>>> headers and have a MailScanner.conf option or rule to only include it
>>>>> on original emails and not reply or forwards similar to how most email
>>>>> clients work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Very good, I like it. So now you can do it :-)
>>>> I've just released 4.69.5 which can do this.
>>>> In your signature's <img> tag, you must have an "alt" attribute which
>>>> contains "MailScanner Signature".
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
>>>> It actually a case-insensitive match on "mailscanner.*signature" so you
>>>> can have anything followed by the word "mailscanner" followed by
>>>> anything followed by the word "signature" followed by anything. So you
>>>> can tweak the text quite a lot and it will still work.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
>>>> Please can you let me know if this does the behaviour that you want.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> The latest version is working much better by not attaching the jpg
>>> file a second time.
>>> However, it is still attaching the html file a second time so I see
>>> duplicate html at
>>> the bottom of the email.
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to also not append any html files that have the match
>>> on the "mailscanner.*signature" search when you don't attach the image file?
>>> My thinking is that they (the inline html and the image) are a pair
>>> and they should
>>> both be added on the first email and both skipped on subsequent emails.
>>>
>>>       
>> Most people want their sig added at the bottom, as otherwise the sig
>> left at the bottom is that of the other person in the conversation. So
>> you're sending out a mail with their sig at the bottom, which is a bit odd.
>>     
>
>   
>> Jules
>>     
> I don't understand why you think this is odd.  The bottom most
> signature is the one
> in question since the html is getting appended to the email.  The
> bottom of the email
> is normally the original email since email is top-post logic (unlike
> mailing lists).
>   
*Content* is usually top-post these days, but *sigs* are usually 
bottom-post.
> If you keep appending the same html to the bottom, it just stacks up
> the same thing
> over and over and you would end up with duplicate images and html text
> back to back
> which looks rather odd.  So unless I am missing something, the current
> logic ends up
> being a bit odd after you reply back and forth a few times.
>   
But it works the same way everyone else does. Most people accept that as 
being a setup they prefer, or they would have asked the vendors to change.

The default is mail clients is to top-post new content, but to 
bottom-post new sigs. I'm just doing the same thing as them.

Jules

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