Hmmm!  Outlook Express is more advanced than I thought when it comes to adding signatures.  I've just clicked on the "Advanced" button and have discovered that I can choose a different signature to add to each account.  Now, I have my own AVG signature (without the  tech stuff) automatically added to my Yahoo account and the my own AVG sig PLUS the links to my fave sites added to the domain account I use for personal (friends and family) e-mails.

Strange, I haven't noticed this facility before.   Is it new to OE6?

Hmmm!  Outlook Express is more advanced than I thought when it comes to adding signatures.  I've just clicked on the "Advanced" button and have discovered that I can choose a different signature to add to each account.  Now, I have my own AVG signature (without the  tech stuff) automatically added to my Yahoo account and the my own AVG sig PLUS the links to my fave sites added to the domain account I use for personal (friends and family) e-mails.

Strange, I haven't noticed this facility before.   Is it new to OE6?

Lol.  Typical Microsoft.  The feature is built-in, the help file goes into detail on how to set it up, BUT IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!!  No matter which signature you ascribe to a particular account, it will always load the default signature!

It's not only me.  I've just spent two hours searching the Newsgroups to try and solve this.  Hundreds of users report  this problem.  Guess what?  Microsoft's official line is that it is "by design".  They suggest you add signatures manually if you want to use more than one!

What on earth is the point of building in a feature that "by design" doesn't work.  Why can't Microsoft be honest for once and admit that it is a bug or flaw that will not be fixed?

Does anyone agree with me that ALL Microsoft products should be given away free as magazine cover disks, as they are basically all in the beta stage?

   

I agree.  

I am using Mozilla at the moment, and it definitely works in their mail client.  You create your signatures in a text program (Notepad / Word / Composer etc), save them as files, and you can append whichever file you like to your outgoing mail, in each individual account.

I use MSGTAG, too.  And, in fact, all of Nick Boltons's products.  MSGTAG is very handy and Mailwasher Pro is truly indispensible, but the real beauty of the bunch is Firetrust Benign.  Just do it, ok!

 

Welcome back, K!  Nice to see you again.  

Well, tell the author, Nick Bolton, about it, then Dave.  Firetrust are usually pretty responsive on these issues (unless everyone else also happens to be reporting the same problem, too).

I have now had a reply from MSGTAG.

Hi Dave,
 
Thanks for writing,

 You are correct in your observation that OE6's "Read Messages in Plain Text" options will prevent notifications from being returned. The MSGTAG notification is triggered by someone opening the e-mail you sent in an HTML capable e- mail client. Most of the major e-mail programs will trigger the tag, but  there are some people who don't use HTML rendering e-mail clients, or have security settings that will mean that the notification isn't triggered.  The tagging feature of MSGTAG requires HTML capable readers to activate the tags. There is no possible mechanism to do this in plain text email unfortunately.

I hope this explains the situation, and this isn't too much of an inconvenience for you,

 Feel free to let me know if you ever have any further questions, problems, or comments on MSGTAG!

 Regards,

Charles Horn,

Customer Support Representative
MSGTAG
Fisher Young Group Limited
http://www.msgtag.com/support/

Therefore, for anyone still considering Message Tag, the negatives are:

1) The reader has to be connected to the internet while opening the mail for a tag to be sent.  Downloading mail, diconnecting and then reading offline = no tag notification.

2) The program only works if HTML is enabled in the recipients client.

The positive is that except for the test e-mail I sent to myself with HTML disabled, I have received a notification for every e-mail I have tagged.