Newbie Q about modifying new mail form.

[Trev]

Hi, we have SBS2003 and local users connect to our exchange server with
outlook 2003. We have our own email domain. A corporate partner provides us
with external POP3 accounts in a different domain, but no ability to send
mail, so all our mail gets sent from our exchange server.
We would like the reply to address and the disclaimer to reflect either our
corporate identity or the partners identity. Is it possible to modify the
new mail form so that there are 2 send buttons, one for each account, and
have each account with it's own disclaimer rather than have to manually
change the reply to address and select different disclaimer for each email
sent? Or can you think of an easier way to do this.

Trev

 

[Guest]

You're definitely on the right track. A better approach would be to design
two custom message forms, with each using a different message body for your
disclaimer. You can then use the message's Options dialog to change the
reply to address. Then add two buttons on a toolbar in the main Outlook
window to launch new instances of these forms (see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290803/EN-US/).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

PMJI, but custom message forms are not a good solution for disclaimers going to outside recipients. They'll carry TNEF content (winmail.dat), which means that attachments will be inaccessible to non-Outlook recipients. (unless maybe all outgoing TNEF were suppressed. Eric, any idea if that would work?)

Signatures might be a better way to do this. Maybe connect to the Exchange account as IMAP for sending as the second account. The Reply To address would still have to be entered manually or with a macro.

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

 

[Guest]

You're absolutely right, Sue. I obviously still have vacation brain! I'm
current working on a project involving custom message forms over the Internet
that relies on all users having the custom form published in their libraries.
Without that assumption, the solution I suggested is of course a no-go.

I guess the only solution left would be to use .oft files and the
CreateItemFromTemplate method. Thinking...yeah, this should definitely work.
So create two messages with different disclaimers, changing the reply
address for each, save to two .oft files, and create two custom toolbar
buttons that map to a macro that creates an instance from each of those
files. Auto-signatures may mess up the disclaimers though...

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[Trev]

Thx Sue & Eric.
Off to experiment ...
Regards Trev