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Dave Jones wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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).
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<pre wrap="">*Content* is usually top-post these days, but *sigs* are usually
bottom-post.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->If you are referring to Yahoo or Hotmail type signatures at the bottom, then you
are correct. However, I don't think that Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL or others would
put a duplicate signature/advertisement at the bottom of an email. That would
look pretty bad.
What my company (global fortune 500) is asking for is a signature/logo appended
once at the bottom of the original outbound email without duplicates.
So far, no
other major commercial email products that we have (Exchange/Proofpoint) can
even do what MailScanner is doing today with the inline graphic. What
I am getting
today is a single attachment (thanks to your 4.69 update) but the html
is getting
duplicated. This ends up giving me a duplicate image tag so the first
one displays
properly then the second one is a broken link type of box.
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That's not good.<br>
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What would be your hourly rate in US dollars and how many hours do you think it
would take to get an option to only send it out on the original email
or detect the html
at the end of the email and somehow prevent a duplicate back to back?
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It would be pretty easy for me to do now, as I have already written the
code that detects a tag in the HTML signature. (You could do it without
the image by putting in a <img> tag without a "src" attribute, so
it couldn't actually display anything but would still put "alt"
attribute in the outgoing message.<br>
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It just means there is going to be yet another configuration option, to
control whether you want to allow duplicate signatures at all. Probably
an hour's work at the most. + 12,000 hours work to allow for the
architecture that makes adding this only an hour's extra work :-)<br>
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<pre wrap="">If you want to
take the details of this offline, then email me at davejones70 at
gmail.com. I want
to discuss you creating a PO to my company anyway for some compensation
even before this feature request.
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That sounds like a lovely idea to me!<br>
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