Agreed, the whole purpose is to sell shiny things to people who are
easily distracted. Again, that is why so many companies use Outlook
with a AD/Exchange set up. I need something that can learn from your
emails if you support HTML and give you anything that looks like a memo,
or an official greeting, on email letterhead. However if you send email
in a text based format it should convert to text to send to you. It
should also not use letterhead for any communications that do not fit
any (finite) number of preselected generic formats. And most
importantly, my employees never have to remember to do anything; it
should happen for them like magic. Pretty/Shinny drives our consumer
economy. Ask you self this, would you feel comfortable dropping $10K on
a lawyer that worked out of the local starbucks and wore old jeans and a
tee shirt and never bathed? Or would you feel more comfortable if he
had a nice office, wore a suite, and did everything on letterhead? For
most people it is the latter. Tasteful use of email letterhead can give
you the edge in client perception.
That said, I had a nice MS system that did this and when it came down to
deciding what triggers should be used to default outgoing emails to use
letterhead management gave up :)
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Subject: Re: OT email letterhead?
After a long battle with technology, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Mike Enriquez wrote:
>> application that will let design a business letterhead that becomes
the
>> default form for email.
Um. This is something that has to be done on the MTA side, unless you
have a
bunch of users who are all using the same mail client who can't change
any
settings at all on that client. I'd say it's a bad idea as only the
people
who aren't very bright or are using lousy clients will even *see* the
HTML.
> I too would be interested. This is very easy using an ms outlook
> client, and can even be set as a configuration push in a ADS/Exchange
> environment, but I have not found anything outside that that lets you
do
> it and was still smart about when/how it should use it.
I'd say it's not a good idea, ever. Well, unless you're trying to sell
shiny
things to people who are easily distracted.
exim is capable of rewriting incoming (and outgoing) mail according to
a "transport filter". It's possible to do a lot with this, but it's
something I have never messed with.
http://wiki.exim.org/FAQ/Modifying_message_bodies/Q1601 is probably a
great
place to start. PLEASE note the legal warnings in there. Postfix ...
dunno,
Postfix is a little less Swiss-Army-knifeish than exim.
> http://www.incredimail.com/
...some highly technical people in ASR were just talking about how much
they
dislike that MUA this morning.
--
We'll see how brave you are.
--Tori Amos, "Yes, Anastasia"
My blog:
http://crow202.org/wordpress/
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
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