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The company I work for has implemented new signatures to be used with Outlook 2010. Our company is also present at many exhibitions a year, and we would like to let our clients know just that.

The problem is that I want to load an external text file in our html signatures, so that I only need to update one file that contains the information on the exhibitions we'll be attending.

Outlook strips iframe tags, object tags and it seems I am unable to run php scripts as well.

Can anyone help me find an alternative?

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  • I think this might belong on SuperUser. What you are trying to do is possible though, I think. – Nick Pickering Feb 20 '13 at 09:43
  • http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstips/ss/wt120603.htm - try this. – Nick Pickering Feb 20 '13 at 09:46
  • I think you'll be able to keep that HTML file updated externally, maybe through a Scheduled Task that runs a PHP script. – Nick Pickering Feb 20 '13 at 09:47
  • Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, i can't get it to work. Any kind of scripting is disabled in Outlook, as we all want it, but that also makes my idea impossible to implement. I guess I should take the manual approach. – Hotfix Feb 20 '13 at 12:41

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Write an outlook plugin to search signatures for a special moniker and replace it with the desired text coming from a company accessible location (e.g. intranet, ActiveDirectory, website, etc).

Outlook stores signatures C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Signatures so you can retrieve this folder with something to the tune of 

string SignaturePath = Path.Combine(
  Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData), "Microsoft", "Signatures));

From here, I would use FileIO to iterate through the signatures, and append my desired text. If you're working within a large enterprise, the outlook VTSO files can be configured to be pushed down using your company's centralized software update/installer software.

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