Outlook Mail with Signatures

Styvie · 2005-08-02

Hi ,

Has anyone had any luck with creating Outlook mail messages from inside Navision - and having the mail created with the Signature.

I cannot get this to work , despite many VB samples managing to get it done. (My solution falls over where they use Objects - i tried Variants, the correct object type etc... still no luck).

Is there a simple solution ?

PS. I do not know which signature I want before i run the function... the users default signature must appear on the mail...

Thanks

ngebhard · 2005-08-05

I would be interested in a solution of this "problem" as well. If anyone has any ideas...

Greetz,
N. Gebhard

Morten_Solberg · 2005-08-08

Search the forum for SIGNATURE

or: http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4650

best regards, Morten

Styvie · 2005-08-08

Nice idea, but does not help me...

I am creating mails for distribution to many contacts, and need to programatically add messages, attachments etc. Hence I need programatic access to do this...

I am wrapping Outlook in my own Automation variable to acheive this....

Dmitry_Chadaev · 2005-11-22

How about this:

E-mail signatures are usually stored as files on your machine: C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Signatures.

You could just access txt file stored there and add it to your message in codeunit 397:

OSendMail."To" := ToName;
      OSendMail.CC := CCName;
      OSendMail.Subject := Subject;

      IF ISCLEAR(BSTRConverterBody) THEN
        CREATE(BSTRConverterBody);

      // ---- New Code

      ChrLineBreak := 13;
      Signature.TEXTMODE(TRUE);

      IF Signature.OPEN('C:\Main Signature.txt') // Define path to txt signature file
        THEN BEGIN
          AddBodyline(FORMAT(ChrLineBreak));

          WHILE NOT (Signature.POS = Signature.LEN) DO BEGIN
            Signature.READ(MyText);
            AddBodyline(MyText);
            AddBodyline(FORMAT(ChrLineBreak));
          END;
      END;

      // ---- New Code

      IF Body <> '' THEN BEGIN
        BSTRConverterBody.ResetBSTR;
        BSTRConverterBody.AppendNextStringPortion(Body);
      END;

To make it more generic - the path could probably be stored on a Salesperson Card somewhere... Just an idea

Styvie · 2005-11-22

Hey Dimitry,

Great minds... Actually used something very similar, only issue i had with that method was the fact that the client required the HTML version of the signature to be present, so i wrapped the Outlook obs as an Automation var.. not the most elegant solution, but gives me access to HTMLBody property.

Works like a charm,

Thanks for the response though.. will be useful for someone.... now if I could just figure out how Outlook knows which signature is chosen for Standard mails vs replies, it would be perfect, then would not even need the setup on User Setup.

Regards,
Steve

bhdijkstra · 2009-06-23

this isn't working for me, does anyone know how to make a change within Outlook for example?

infonote · 2011-03-28

Hi,

I require something similar i.e. Signature with HTML.
I am having a look at the Outlook OBS, but none have the HTMLBody property.

Classes
OutlookBarShortcut
OutlookBarShortcuts
OutlookBarStorage

Alternatively has anyone found an alternative/better method to do this?

Thanks in advance

Styvie wrote:

Hey Dimitry,

Great minds... Actually used something very similar, only issue i had with that method was the fact that the client required the HTML version of the signature to be present, so i wrapped the Outlook obs as an Automation var.. not the most elegant solution, but gives me access to HTMLBody property.

Works like a charm,

Thanks for the response though.. will be useful for someone.... now if I could just figure out how Outlook knows which signature is chosen for Standard mails vs replies, it would be perfect, then would not even need the setup on User Setup.

Regards,
Steve

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