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Post by **martin** » 2005-03-05 00:09

Make it possible to set a disclaimer which will automaticly be added to each message passing hmailserver. I think making it on domain level is an good idea.

http://www.hmailserver.com/tracker/?do=details&id=265

olger901 · Post by **olger901** » 2005-03-05 00:22

Could be a good idea, however this should be optional, it might be handy for larger companies for example to add a company slogan or something similair like it, but I wouldn't use it personally though.

Post by **martin** » 2005-03-05 00:24

Me neither. I hate those 14-line disclaimers that aren't enforceable in any way.

Glenn · Post by **Glenn** » 2005-03-05 13:24

Yes, in the future we want to provide free e-mailadresses for our community members. Then we want to place some advertisement-text in the footer

TheAngryPenguin · Post by **TheAngryPenguin** » 2005-03-07 07:00

Even though they are stoopid, the people who pay we admins just seem to want this. I'd never recommend the use of this, but it may make or break the final decision of someone considering hMS as their mail server of choice. Hell, I can even enable something like this with Postini -- why not be able to do it here, at the source?

Post by **martin** » 2005-03-31 23:05

In hMailServer 4.0, it's extremly easy to do this using scripting. All you need to do is to put the following lines in the EventHandlers.vbs-file.

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  Sub OnDeliverMessage(oMessage) 
        ' Add a footer to all messages. 
        oMessage.Body = oMessage.Body & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Please note that this email contains no useful information whatsoever." 
        oMessage.Save 
   End Sub

Perhaps this is enough?

tiker · Post by **tiker** » 2005-04-01 00:00

If it can be done through a script, why code it again a second time?

monster · Post by **monster** » 2005-06-17 08:01

i agree w/ you martin. this much easier than re-writting the hmail. how ever this one only works in text mail format not in html format.

see :
http://www.hmailserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10655

martin wrote:In hMailServer 4.0, it's extremly easy to do this using scripting. All you need to do is to put the following lines in the EventHandlers.vbs-file.
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  Sub OnDeliverMessage(oMessage) 
        ' Add a footer to all messages. 
        oMessage.Body = oMessage.Body & vbNewLine & vbNewLine & "Please note that this email contains no useful information whatsoever." 
        oMessage.Save 
   End Sub 
Perhaps this is enough?

Post by **martin** » 2005-08-25 22:33

In 4.1 and later, you can modify the HTML body as well.

So again, I think we should just wait with this one. Anyone that disagrees?

plive · Post by **plive** » 2005-08-25 23:11

Maybe you could add some templates and a wizard to help modifying those to achieve the most common tasks through scripts (I know there is a section in this forum but many hMailServer users do not know anything about programming).

Post by **martin** » 2005-08-25 23:13

Yupp.. I won't remove this feature request just because it's possible using scripting. Instead I'll just create a sample that shows how to do it that the user can modify easily..

tazho · Post by **tazho** » 2005-09-16 15:19

I've already wrote this in my script. Our company wants it and uses the feature, but only for emails going outside of the local domains. So Any internal comms doesn't get a disclaimer.
If it were to become an option, I would require an additional optional to not do it for local mail / local domains.

plive · Post by **plive** » 2005-09-16 15:31

Waht about posting your code?
Thank you, Paolo

tazho · Post by **tazho** » 2005-09-16 16:45

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call disclaimer(oMessage)   ' in onAcceptMessage

sub disclaimer(oMessage)
dim disclaim
disclaim=false
Dim oRecipients
Set oRecipients = oMessage.Recipients

For i = 0 To oRecipients.Count - 1               
	if oRecipients(i).IsLocalUser = false Then disclaim = true   
next 
	  
if disclaim=true then
	oMessage.Body=oMessage.Body & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "----------------" & vbcrlf & "Disclaimer goes here-PLAIN"
	if oMessage.HTMLBody <> "" then 
		oMessage.HTMLBody = oMessage.HTMLBody & "<br><br>----------------<br><h3>Disclaimer goes here-HTML</h3>"
		end if
	oMessage.Save
	end if
end sub

FAWTS · Post by **FAWTS** » 2005-09-21 03:00

This script works very as soon as U understand that ' is for comment in vbs and that you must uncomment

Sub OnClientConnect(oClient)
End Sub

Sub OnAcceptMessage(oClient, oMessage)
call disclaimer(oMessage)
End Sub

Sub OnDeliverMessage(oMessage)
End Sub

And place call disclaimer(oMessage) between

Sub OnAcceptMessage(oClient, oMessage)

and

End Sub

In EventHandlers.vbs

But I have a question how to insert " in vbs (for example <a href="http://www...)

Thank you

cmurphy54 · Post by **cmurphy54** » 2005-09-21 03:20

If you want to enter something like <a href="http://www.domain.com">link</a> you would do
"<a href=""http://www.domain.com"">link</a>"

So, if you can't tell from the example, you include a " by using two of them.

FAWTS · Post by **FAWTS** » 2005-09-21 14:39

Thank's, it works perfectly !!!

FAWTS · Post by **FAWTS** » 2005-11-12 20:35

Hum, well, it worked perfectly until I tried HMS 4.2. Now only the first line of disclaimer appear with HTML mail and the 2 first lines with plain texte mail...

Post by **martin** » 2005-11-12 20:38

Can you post the code you're using?

FAWTS · Post by **FAWTS** » 2005-11-17 14:13

Sure, here the code :

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   Sub OnClientConnect(oClient)
   End Sub

   Sub OnAcceptMessage(oClient, oMessage)
   call disclaimer(oMessage)
   End Sub

   Sub OnDeliverMessage(oMessage)
   End Sub

    'in onAcceptMessage

sub disclaimer(oMessage)
dim disclaim
disclaim=false
Dim oRecipients
Set oRecipients = oMessage.Recipients

For i = 0 To oRecipients.Count - 1
   if oRecipients(i).IsLocalUser = false Then disclaim = true
next

if disclaim=true then
   oMessage.Body=oMessage.Body & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "----------------" & vbcrlf & "first line" & vbcrlf & vbcrlf & "second line"
   if oMessage.HTMLBody <> "" then
      oMessage.HTMLBody = oMessage.HTMLBody & "<br><br>----------------<br><h4>First line.<br><br>second line.</h4>"
      end if
   oMessage.Save
   end if
end sub

Maybe it is the vbcrlf that doesn't work

Talrinys · Post by **Talrinys** » 2006-02-05 01:18

I still think adding this to the server itself as a configurable per-domain or per-user basis would work best, easier to setup and per-user would work nice, seeing as i need to provide a free email service for my friend, and he needs to be able to edit per-user.

Blue Ninja · Post by **Blue Ninja** » 2006-02-05 02:21

Glenn wrote:Yes, in the future we want to provide free e-mailadresses for our community members. Then we want to place some advertisement-text in the footer

Bastard! Die die die! Then we'll need to treat all that mail as spam, too - Someone better start letting ASSP scan for footer-ads!

Blue Ninja · Post by **Blue Ninja** » 2006-02-05 02:22

martin wrote:Me neither. I hate those 14-line disclaimers that aren't enforceable in any way.

Martin,

Just force the disclaimers to be somehow delimited with a MIME boundary or something, so that you can add another feature to hMailServer to automatically strip this disclaimer from all incoming messages

kazmax · Post by **kazmax** » 2006-02-05 10:28

Before we run away with the idea that these appendages are unenforceable, I beg to differ. Not because they are necessarily enforceable in law, but because if a half-decent lawyer was on the job it would certainly be used as ammunition to prop up a case.

"M'lud, the plaintiff says he received no notification that the information supplied in the email could lead to his hard drive being trashed, however the defendants mail server through which this email passed has been independently verified to automatically add such notification to all emails, including this one".

Juries typically convict on the probability factor offered by the evidence, and not least the ability of the prosecution/defence lawyers - not on the fact that some law or other has been broken.

We've got enough stupid laws as it is, and the last thing we need is our parliament spending huge dollars enshrining email footers in law.

Me, I just ignore them like every other sane person does.

Andrew

jpeoples · Post by **jpeoples** » 2006-02-21 09:54

kazmax wrote: "M'lud, the plaintiff says he received no notification that the information supplied in the email could lead to his hard drive being trashed, however the defendants mail server through which this email passed has been independently verified to automatically add such notification to all emails, including this one".

I do believe that you woefully neglected to appropriately punctuate the above quoted plea before the magistrate....DONS POWERED WIG...

"M'lud, the plaintiff says he received no notification that the information supplied in the email could lead to his hard drive being trashed, however comma the defendants mail server through which this email passed has been independently verified to automatically add such notification to all emails, including the one which led to the unfortunate circumstance in question".

I feel like i've done my bit to improve the plight of the human condition...*ducking and running*

kazmax · Post by **kazmax** » 2006-02-21 19:54

Disclaimer: I fialed Engerlish at schule, in fcat so baddly dat I neverer parsed

jpeoples · Post by **jpeoples** » 2006-02-22 16:37

For the record....I never parsed either....well there was that one unfortunate incident several years ago while i was in the army and very drunk.......*deadpan*

it wouldn't be just to let one single incident define a man's character

kazmax · Post by **kazmax** » 2006-02-22 20:05

Oh I don't know.....

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