I (and some folks) need to send a lot of similar e-mail's everyday. Using Outlook 2010 as mail client. Today I want to somehow simplify this process.
Thinking about html page with mailto links. Like:
Letter to someone
Letter to someone else
etc...
Problem is come out when I clicked on one of them. Outlooks "New message" window pops up, but without signature. It's only text from mailto link in body.
Can someone point out what I did wrong?
I'm trying to figure this out as well.
According to http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Office_Productivity/Groupware/Outlook/Q_26410679.html you get either the body or the signature. I've tested this and removing my body text brought my signature back.
Alternatively, you can hardcode your signature into the body text.
Microsoft is not going to fix this bug. The workaround is to add it in the email body.
I believe the following MSDN article explains what you're describing: Messages that are created outside Outlook do not include the default Outlook email signature (KB 2544665)
Pretty sure you cannot customise a signature from the mailto: link.
The 2 ways to look at it is either setup your signatures in Outlook itself or, add the "signautre" to the bottom of the body included in the link?
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We have Ruby script that fetch and parse reply emails from our clients and putting them on appropriate client object in application.
For that purpose we send email to client with specific "hidden" code/id inside 1x1 pixel img tag (in similar way tracking pixel technology works) when clients reply to email, they quote our original email with code/id inside. And when we get client reply we can detect that hidden code from img tag, and process it accordingly. This works fine except when clients are replying from Outlook 2013.
Outlook 2013 removes image data containing code/id, and put something like "Image removed by sender." so we cannot detect see code/id anymore.
Also tried, making a image from base64 and even encoding code/id inside base64 image, but we got same result.
We tried different solutions, like making custom tags with class name contain code/id. Those custom tags are removed too, and replaced with something like < o:p >< /o:p >
We tried to put code/id inside invisible div, in inline css and various css tricks, and in this case Outlook just removes invisibility of div, and code/id is visible in email content.
There is a option that code/id is visible text inside body or subject, but we would like that this code/id be stays invisible to the clients.
It seems like its almost impossible to pass some hidden data trough reply email from MS Outlook.
Is there any way that we can pass this code/id trough reply email from outlook, without outlook removing it or making it visible?
Thank you.
Unless the data is visible (one way or another), chances are Outlook (or rather Word-light used for editing emails) will remove it.
White text on white background would probably work...
<img src=3D"https://t.yesware.com/t/58c8a29bcdf01103c9661815ef20eff8d=
f34a1b3/556ad713ae0cb0b15199a455f1fa5dfd/spacer.gif" style=3D"border:0; wid=
th:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width=3D"0" height=3D"0"><img src=3D"http=
://t.yesware.com/t/58c8a29bcdf01103c9661815ef20eff8df34a1b3/556ad713ae0cb0b=
15199a455f1fa5dfd/spacer.gif" style=3D"border:0; width:0; height:0; overflo=
w:hidden;" width=3D"0" height=3D"0">
I will address this dry-snitching code in a bit
Yesware is a paid service that allows you to track when and where the recipient of your email opens that email, every single time that they do or if they forward it to someone else, you will get the IP address and device type of each of those opens as well.
I've used Yesware for years, this is the first time that it has peeked it's little head out. In an email chain involving my Gmail hosted email and someone we will call Quarles. The first email I sent Quarles went normally, I received notification from Yesware that Quarles opened it from an iPhone. No further notifications came from YesWare which is impossible because he has replied twice.
I discovered in the latest email thread, under my second reply, Image removed by sender.Image removed by sender.
Below my third reply, Error! File name not specified.Error! Filename not specified.
I viewed the headers and, damn the luck, Quarles is using Outlook on a Mac Microsoft-MacOutlook/10.c.0.180410
What I am curious about is what Quarles sees on his end. Because the gif is not gone, the code is still there in our thread untouched. I know because if I open the email thread from another device (non-sending device) I get the notification that someone opened the email. So, what is preventing the code from calling home? Is it his MacOutlook? Is it an add-on he's got?
I am seriously considering having my husband write something better than Yesware. He's not a programmer but he is a SysAdmin so he'll figure it out. Besides, the stupid programs he has designed looked like crap anyway so why not write code for something that is supposed to remain unseen.
Oops, gotta go, if he catches me on stackoverflow he's gonna freak.. ;)
I am facing this problem, suppose i have a html anchor like this
Send Email
if you open the link above using outlook the body overrides the signature in outlook.
my question is, can outlook macros append the signature after the message body? and if so, is there vba code sample to achieve this?
No, you will need to use Outlook Object Model for that - display the message first (signature will be added at that point), then add your own body.
I don't think that this is possible, but I figured I would reach out to you guys to see if anyone knows anything.
This is my href... but when I decide to add a body to it, it doesn't place the outlook signature with the link. This link is being sent through email, so I don't have the ability to use Javascript or anything. From what I have been reading it seems that if there is no delay between creating the email and adding a subject then Outlook does not include the signature.
href="mailto:xyz#12345.com?Subject=TSC%20Pricing&body=Hi,%0D%0A%0D%0ACan you please send me pricing for TSC Printers."
Anyone have any thoughts?
I'm having the same problem - Apparntly it's because your predefining the body of the e-mail which removes the signature. I have heard that if you put a delay between the subject and the body it will appear.
Maybe put the body into cvlipboard and paste it after it loads - have no idea how to accomplish this though.
I hope this helps
I'm trying to use an html email signature that pulls the html from another site. So, imagine I have the html hosted at blahblah.com/blah.html, and blah.html is:
<html>
<body>
Jon Jones
jon#blahblah.com
</body>
</html
And then my html signature would be something like <embed src="blahblah.com/blah.html/> that way I can manipulate the signature without having to constantly change the actual signature in Outlook (which I use to check my email).
I can't figure out any html that will do what I'm trying to do. The embed tag that I posted above doesn't do the trick. What simple line of html can I use to say "display what you find at blahblah.com/blah.html"
I would venture a guess and say this isn't the best way to do this.
From a security standpoint, I wouldn't want to be viewing any email sent by you that also brings in somesite.com/signature.htm. Even if it did, it would invoke a "click to view linked elements in this email" banner, and hide it until I did so (but chances are I'm not clicking).
From a recipient stand point, some spam filters block emails with externally-linked content (your intended recipient may not even get your email, or (best-case) see it with [spam] in the subject line.)
If you want an easy up-keep, you could place the signature in your my documents/some other folder and link to it via outlook's settings, but that about the least intense method (while also not causing concerns or issues to anyone viewing your email.)
It looks like instructions for what you want are here: http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/html-email.html
Under "How to add HTML links in Outlook HTML emails," point to blahblah.com/blah.html
On the other hand, HTML in emails is generally not a great thing because it often isn't very secure (you could send me a page with HTML that would load a virus), so many clients won't be able to recieve it or will flag it as spam.
I've encountered a problem with Gmail's web application. For some reason, the mailto links doesn't work when I try to add the body into the link. The links works fine as long as the & separator for the body is not used.
For example:
href="mailto:?subject=test&body=this is a test" - Doesn't work
href="mailto:?subject=testbody=this is a test" - Does work but, obviously, it doesn't generate the desired result as everything goes to the subject.
I am running Vista 64bit and I've tried FF, Chrome and IE. Also, I've noticed a difference between how Gmail renders my mail in my Gmail account and Google Apps account.
When i view the same email on my iPhone & Outlook everything seems to work fine.
Any help will be appreciated.
I can get everything to populate on the gmail interface using their full url:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=target#email.com&subject=MISSED%20CALL%20EZTRADER&body=Hello%2C%0A%0AI%20tried%20contacting%20you%20today%20but%20you%20seem%20to%20have%20missed%20my%20call.%20%0A%0APlease%20return%20my%20call%20as%20soon%20as%20you%E2%80%99re%20available.%20%0A%0AIn%20any%20case%2C%20I%20will%20try%20ringing%20you%20at%20a%20later%20time.%0A%0A%0ATy%2C%0A%0A%0A%0A
dude , even if I didn't encoding '&', however I replace followings characters, and then pass the email body and subject to mailto, it does work for me. Hope this may brings you some ideas.
body = body.replaceAll("\\\\", "%5C");
body = body.replaceAll(" ", "%20");
body = body.replaceAll("\r", "%0D");
body = body.replaceAll("\n", "%0A");
body = body.replaceAll("\t", "%09");
Try href="mailto:?subject=test&body=this+is+a+test"
Tested in Firefox 19 - working.
In Chrome you need to install an extension to get it working.
The page I tested - https://dl.dropbox.com/u/60854445/mail.html
Chrome extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mailto-for-gmail/dgkkmcknielgdhebimdnfahpipajcpjn/
Maybe they have fixed it.
try this
Email Me
Consider swapping the spaces for %20.
Also, what is the formatting problem? Or better clarity in all would be helpful. you said "the mailto links doesn't work" and "Gmail renders my mail in my Gmail account and Google Apps account". Is it sending it or not, and if it's sending to both what specifically is the difference.
I was struggling to find out why &subject= doesn't work in href for Gmail.
So I found this &su= to make subject work.
See example below:
href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to={{test#gmail.com}}&su=Subject&body=Body%20Text"
%20 - space
%0A - new line
As you can see in RFC 2368, this is not possible at all:
The special hname "body" indicates that the associated hvalue is the body of the message. The "body" hname should contain the content for the first text/plain body part of the message. The mailto URL is primarily intended for generation of short text messages that are actually the content of automatic processing (such as "subscribe" messages for mailing lists), not general MIME bodies.