Multiple signatures

[Edwin Smith]

HI:

I'm using Outlook 2003 with Exchange 2003. I have multiple email accounts
with both POP3 and Imap as well as the Exchange direct connect through my
intranet.

I would like to configure one signature for my business emails and a
different signature for my personal emails which are on different accounts.
However when I set up the different signatures, and go to creat a new
message it comes up with the signature for the default account and switching
to the other account doesn't change the signature. Currently I have to leave
the automatic signature for new messages set to none and then add the
signature manually.

It seems like I should be able to do this so that new messages have the
correct signature depending on which account is used for sending but it
always puts in the default account when new message is created.

Anyone encountered this problem?

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

In order for the signature to change when you switch accounts in OL2003, you
need to be using WordMail as your email editor.

 

[Edwin Smith]

It works! Thanks. Though it seems odd that this should be a requirement.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Not at all once you understand how WordMail signatures work. They're
distinguished from the rest of the text by some special invisible markup.
Switching signatures is a matter of finding the text so marked and swapping
it out. That's also what makes it possible to right-click a signature block
in WordMail and change signatures on the fly. The regular Outlook editor
doesn't have that markup capability.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers