Add signature "custom action"

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Steve Forman

I'm looking for a utility that will automatically add my signature as
a custom action event for the Rules Wizard.
My idea is that I would like to attach a signature to e-mails that are
external to the company and I could set up the Rules Wizard to perform
the custom action when the recipient contains an "@" sign.
The question is where can I find/create a freeware utility to make
this custom action.
I believe the now defunct "Autosign" used to have this functionality
but I can't find a trace of it anywhere anymore.
Does anybody know of any other utility which would enable me to do
this?
Thanks in advance.
 
ExSign from www.ornic.com might do it.

Which version of Outlook? With Ol2003 and word as your editor, it's fairly
easy to switch sigs yourself - right click on the sig and select a new one.
Create a blank sig to use in-house and if most of your mail is in-house, set
the blank sig to be default.
 
I realize that it's not difficult to add a custom signature to
outgoing e-mails, I just thought it would be nice to have them
automatically added based on recipient and should definitely be
possible.
I'm using Outlook 2000.
Exsign might do the trick but I wouldn't use it enough to warrant
spending any money on a shareware product.
Any other suggestions?

Diane Poremsky said:
ExSign from www.ornic.com might do it.

Which version of Outlook? With Ol2003 and word as your editor, it's fairly
easy to switch sigs yourself - right click on the sig and select a new one.
Create a blank sig to use in-house and if most of your mail is in-house, set
the blank sig to be default.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)





Steve Forman said:
I'm looking for a utility that will automatically add my signature as
a custom action event for the Rules Wizard.
My idea is that I would like to attach a signature to e-mails that are
external to the company and I could set up the Rules Wizard to perform
the custom action when the recipient contains an "@" sign.
The question is where can I find/create a freeware utility to make
this custom action.
I believe the now defunct "Autosign" used to have this functionality
but I can't find a trace of it anywhere anymore.
Does anybody know of any other utility which would enable me to do
this?
Thanks in advance.
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I wound up writing an AutoIT solution for this problem which works
pretty well.
AutoIt is a great freeware programming language which can be
downloaded from
http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/index.php

Here is the code which, when run, will automatically add a signature
when you hit "control k" if it notices outgoing mail by looking for an
"@" sign in the name field, then proceed to the normal Outlook lookup:

Opt("TrayIconHide", 1)
HotKeySet("^k", "AttachSig")
While 1
Wend

Func AttachSig()
$text=WinGetText("Untitled - Message (Rich Text)")
$addsig = StringInstr($text, "@")
if $addsig then
Send ("!is{ENTER}")
Endif
HotKeySet("^k")
Send ("^k")
HotKeySet("^k", "AttachSig")
EndFunc
 
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