Add signature "custom action"

[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.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

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.

 

[Steve Forman]

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?

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)

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.

 

[Steve Forman]

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