Personalized Signatures |
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This documentation is based on version 1.0 of CodeTwo Exchange Rules 2007. To read the manual that applies to 2.0 click here.
Disclaimers can contain special variables, which allow creating personalized signatures, i.e. disclaimers containing the sender's personal details. If a disclaimer contains variables, before adding it to the message, all variables will be dynamically replaced with the appropriate values retrieved from the Active Directory database for that user - the sender of the message.
Variables in the disclaimer should be entered in square brackets. For instance, the [First name] text is a variable and will be replaced with the first name of the message sender, the [Last name] variable - with the last name, and [E-mail] - with the e-mail address of the user, sending the message.
| An example of a personalized plain text-formatted disclaimer: | An example of the disclaimer added by the program to an outgoing message: |
-- Best regards, [First name] [Last name] [Department] [Company] phone: [Phone] mobile: [Mobile] e-mail: [E-mail] ------------------------------------ Emails belong in computers, trees belong in forests; if you must print this, do it on recycled paper. ------------------------------------ |
-- Best regards, John Doe Development CodeTwo phone: 555-344-234 mobile: 555-234-876 e-mail: j.doe@codetwo.com ------------------------------------ Emails belong in computers, trees belong in forests; if you must print this, do it on recycled paper. ------------------------------------ |
Examples of personalized disclaimers are available in the "Templates" directory in the program installation folder.
The table below contains the full list of variables that may be used in disclaimers. Each variable corresponds to a specific value in the Active Directory database. The table has been divided into sections, representing tabs in the user properties of the Active Directory Users and Computers console.
| General tab |
| [First name] |
| [Last name] |
| [Initials] |
| [Display name] |
| [Description] |
| [Office] |
| [Phone] |
| [E-mail] |
| [Web page] |
| Address tab |
| [Street] |
| [P.O. Box] |
| [City] |
| [State] |
| [Postal code] |
| [Country] |
| Telephones tab |
| [Home phone] |
| [Pager] |
| [Mobile] |
| [Fax] |
| [IP phone] |
| Organization tab |
| [Title] |
| [Department] |
| [Company] |
| Exchange Advanced tab (Exchange Custom Attributes, extensionAttribute1 - extensionAttribute15) |
| [ExchAttr1] |
| [ExchAttr2] |
| ... |
| [ExchAttr15] |
CodeTwo Exchange Rules has a built-in feature to process RT (Remove Text) Control Tags. This function proves especially useful with personalized disclaimers containing Active Directory placeholders. In the event that the placeholder cannot be filled with values due to the lack of corresponding data in the Active Directory base, RT control tags will remove the empty line(s) or redundant text in the disclaimer. RT control tags can be conveniently embedded into disclaimers with the built-in Signature Editor.
More about RT control tags...