Re: [exim] altermime with oultook

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Author: W B Hacker
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] altermime with oultook
Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Renaud Allard wrote:
>> samer khalil wrote:
>>> I am using altermime (http://www.pldaniels.com/altermime/) to add
>>> disclaimers to all outgoing emails.
>
>> Here is something you should probably read:
>> http://wiki.exim.org/FAQ/Modifying_message_bodies/Q1601
>
> And this:
> http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
> http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/apply.html
>
> Basic upshot, if you really really have to try the below method.
> Disclaimer is still in the email (whether someone read it or not is
> pointless), lawyers will still be happy. But it's not pissing off
> everyone, not making you look stupid and most importantly doesn't fuck
> things up so much.
>
> The Merely Silly way
>      The mailhub puts the disclaimer (or a pointer to a web-page 
> containing the disclaimer) in the message headers. This does not alter 
> the content or structure of the message and would from a mail managers 
> point of view be the best solution.

>
>      Problems:

>
>         1. Most mail clients do not display the headers by default. 
> Hence no one will see the disclaimer.

>


And you call that a 'problem'?

;-)

Sounds like a *solution* to me!

Setting 'always use my stylesheet' with background specified as white
and text *also* specified as white...

.. puts paid to the *rest* of a fool-sourced composed-in-html 'message'
as well.

Bill