Dear forum, Firstoff, My apologies for posting in this forum, however a senior forum administrator who has helped me many times before suggested I should ask it here. I've been brouwsing the web for countless days with this question trying to find some way of solving it. However, the only thing I could find is the question being asked, but not aswered.Whats the problem?Im trying to get a signature in outlook express to go with the user upon login, however, this signature has to be able to be changed on specific days. The signature that is used in outlook express needs to be changed on a daily basis, automatically.A script that would be called upon (net)logon with a user (or usergroup) would solve it, but so far I have very little luck finding this.Some things that might help me even if you dont know how either:Where is the (default or user) signature located within outlook express? Perhaps I can call my own script (outside outlook express) to just "change" this on sertan days. However, Im not sure if outlook will then automatically accept the change..Are there any commands you can give to outlook with a script? (set this signature as your signature?).Im quite clueless how to do this, your help would be very apriciated.Thank you for reading, Christiaan Verhoef, PS:Why havn't I posted this on the outlook forums?I have posted this on the outlook forum but they send me away to other non-operational forums that have no answers or Paid microsoft support, which I cannot afford as a student. They seem unable to assist. 1 person needs an answerI do too

A: Firstoff, My apologies for posting in this forum, however a senior forum administrator who has helped me many times before suggested I should ask it here.B: Im trying to get a signature in outlook express to go with the user upon login, however, this signature has to be able to be changed on specific days. The signature that is used in outlook express needs to be changed on a daily basis, automatically.A script that would be called upon (net)logon with a user (or usergroup) would solve it, but so far I have very little luck finding this.Some things that might help me even if you dont know how either:C: Where is the (default or user) signature located within outlook express? Perhaps I can call my own script (outside outlook express) to just "change" this on sertan days. However, Im not sure if outlook will then automatically accept the change..D: Are there any commands you can give to outlook with a script? (set this signature as your signature?).Im quite clueless how to do this, your help would be very apriciated.Thank you for reading, Christiaan Verhoef, PS:E: Why havn't I posted this on the outlook forums?I have posted this on the outlook forum but they send me away to other non-operational forums that have no answers or Paid microsoft support, which I cannot afford as a student. They seem unable to assist.A: This is the correct forum for Outlook Express.B: The only way I know of doing this is to have separate OE identities for each day. Of course, each identity would only have its own messages for when it was used.C: |--HKEY_CURRENT_USER|-----Identities |--------{GUID} |-----------Software |--------------Microsoft |-----------------Outlook Express |--------------------5.0 where GUID is the Global Unique IDentifier for your Identity. Under that key, you will find the following sub-keys, among others: |-----------------------Block Senders |-----------------------Rules |-----------------------Signatures If you create HTML sigs, you can store each in a folder on your HDD, perhaps in My Documents.Note: HTML Signatures must be less than 4KB.Open a New Message window and create your signature. (Insert graphic & text). Click the Source Tab. (View | Source Edit if not already checked). Highlight the entire source code and copy / paste into Notepad. File | Save As and in the File Name field, save as an htm file, (i.e. Sig1.htm). It will be saved to My Documents by default. Go to Tools | Options | Signatures. Click: File | Browse and Insert your saved signature | Apply. You can rename it now if you wish.D: No idea. (P.S. You're calling OE Outlook).E: Outlook and Outlook Express are completely different programs. The only thing they have in common is the word Outlook in the name.Bruce HagenMS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010Imperial Beach, CA

What I would suggest is simpler than Bruce's suggestion. A signature in OE can derive from a file. So if you composed a different file for every day, then you could easily overwrite the current signature file with another one, as long as the file name was the same. That would be much easier than having to modify the registry or switch identities or even actually programming OE to accept a certain signature (which I would not recommend). Now to compose an HTML signature for OE see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/170968 You can take a simple HTML code such as this: <HTML><BODY>some text hereHere's an image:<img src="File://C:\myimages\myimage.gif"></BODY></HTML> You can copy that and paste it into Notepad and save it as an htm file and then just designate that as your signature file in OE. Then if you want to change the signature, just overwrite the file and OE will never know it. see if that helps. steve <C.Verhoef> wrote in message news:Email removed for privacy...Dear forum, Firstoff, My apologies for posting in this forum, however a senior forum administrator who has helped me many times before suggested I should ask it here. I've been brouwsing the web for countless days with this question trying to find some way of solving it. However, the only thing I could find is the question being asked, but not aswered.Whats the problem?Im trying to get a signature in outlook express to go with the user upon login, however, this signature has to be able to be changed on specific days. The signature that is used in outlook express needs to be changed on a daily basis, automatically.A script that would be called upon (net)logon with a user (or usergroup) would solve it, but so far I have very little luck finding this.Some things that might help me even if you dont know how either:Where is the (default or user) signature located within outlook express? Perhaps I can call my own script (outside outlook express) to just "change" this on sertan days. However, Im not sure if outlook will then automatically accept the change..Are there any commands you can give to outlook with a script? (set this signature as your signature?).Im quite clueless how to do this, your help would be very apriciated.Thank you for reading, Christiaan Verhoef, PS:Why havn't I posted this on the outlook forums?I have posted this on the outlook forum but they send me away to other non-operational forums that have no answers or Paid microsoft support, which I cannot afford as a student. They seem unable to assist.

First off,Thank you Bruce and Steve for replying to my request. I've been as desperate to go trough pages of text dating back 10 years to find something that would solve this issue for me.To Bruce Wagen: This sounds very good! The key is something I was looking for! however:You said:" Open a New Message window and create your signature. (Insert graphic & text). Click the Source Tab. (View | Source Edit if not already checked). Highlight the entire source code and copy / paste into Notepad. File | Save As and in the File Name field, save as an htm file, (i.e. Sig1.htm). It will be saved to My Documents by default. Go to Tools | Options | Signatures. Click: File | Browse and Insert your saved signature | Apply. You can rename it now if you wish."The idea is to not go by 60 PC's to imput "This is your new sig, go use it" but to have a command executed(from the server or executed as a script of part of the program) to initiate it. Its all about automation. If you change the file in the key (that is the signature) to another file with the same name (sig1 > sig1), will outlook then accept it as a new signature? To Steve Cochran: Thats is really cool! How did you find that microsoft support page? I've been looking everywhere! However, in this case its about automation. The costumer (Note: virtual costumer, im a student, I don't get paid) is not computer skilled and wants this done without him touching (a lot of) buttons. Since this costumer has a lot of users and 60 PC's, he wants to login on every computer, have his signature availble and have that change with sertan days (due to work schedules). I;ve already setup the server, outlook OE and a NetLogon script for diffrent users. Steve cochran said:"see if that helps."Thanks to you, Steve and Bruce, I feel a new determination to go forward. My trust in microsoft support has been renewed and I will keep trying on my own to go forward aswell. I will keep you updated!If you have any more suggestions, hints, salutions, please keep them coming!PS: don't worry, you are not doing my homework(eg, im also 21) this is only a very small part of the assignment filed under research by any means possible.Thanks so much again! Your dutch friend, Chris Verhoef,