Digital signature's changing form

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I have created a form in Outlook 2003, but when I digitally sign the form it
is received as a blank email with my signature block. I am new at this forms
design element, and any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Karl Knighton
 
Thanks Sue, this may be the first that you have answered from officially but
there have been many more un-official answers reaped from this forum.

Without taking the time yet to read through the two shortcuts you posted, is
it possible to add a macro that would take the digital signature and add it
into the form?

Thanks again, and I look forward to pestering you with more questions about
these forms.
 
No, Outlook has no programmatic methods for applying a digital signature to a message. The best you might be able to do is use CommandBars to display the related dialog for signing.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
 
Hi Sue, I'm back. My office is now upgrading to 2007 and I was wondering,
with the update, will I have the ability to include digital signatures?
 
Just for my understanding, what is it in the custom forms that does not play
nice with digital signatures? Being that a regular email message is a form
and I can digitally sign those, what happens when I customize the form that
takes that property away? As I understand it, all that Outlook is doing is
sending the certificates from my CAC card along with the form to be verified
 
A message using the standard message form, however, does not have customization information to carry with it. Microsoft simply didn't design the two to work together. (You might notice that a signed message has a special value for MessageClass; that would seem to leave little room for it also have a MessageClass pointing to a published custom form.) In fact, message forms in general are difficult to implement -- impossible in many organizations. They're a dead-end technology.
 
Would a digital signature work on a template? Would I also be able to print
off a template just like a regular e-mail?
 
By template, do you mean an .oft file? If it has no custom fields (which is the only scenario in which an .oft file is viable these days), I would expect it to work. But you're in a better position to find out by trying it yourself.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming:
Jumpstart for Power Users and Administrators
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54
 
I'm sorry Sue, this sure seems like I am beating a dead horse. I just
couldn't give into the fact of this form not working. Well, yesterday while
I was playing around with it, I sent my self a digitally signed, customized
form. To include data in the form. Now that I have accomplished the
"impossible", I cannot duplicate. I get an error stating, "A required
component is missing: outform.dat. Please install Microsoft Office Outlook
again". What does this mean?
 
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