[Gllug] Personal Email sigs

[Simon Morris]

On 14/02/06, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Tethys stipulated:
> > As someone else mentioned, you wouldn't want to do this on the server.
> > Just configure your email client to do it instead. In fact, it's provably
> > impossible to do it correctly on the server, although you can take a stab
> > at it that will get it right for most common cases.
>
> Impossible? I know it would be woefully unconfigurable done there, but
> *impossible*? Appending text to the mail body is an RFC violation and
> nasty but I can't see why it's impossible.

Indeed it is not impossible and some organisations exist to sell such a service.

This one [0] for example courted the organisation I work for and we
had a look at their product. It is a BSD powered SMTP relay with a
pretty interface for configuring the addition of HTML (and
occasionally plain text) templates and headers

They break email horribly - in fact I cannot read most of their
advertising mailshots I get from them which says a lot

[0] http://www.rocketseed.com/

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