Auto datestamp on email body

[de049]

Hi all,

My first post here, so thanks for your time before i start.

My issue is as follows:

We need to send a shift handover email every evening and was wonderin
what would be the easiest way to have a datestamp set in a particula
area of the message body (within a designated table cell if possible).
This datestamp would need to be applied either when forwarding the emai
or when sending (or whenver for that matter so long as it gets applie
automatically).

The whole idea of automating this is that we dont leave th
datestamping open to manual error (by forgetting to include it one day
and so that the recipient is not able to alter this as it would be par
of the origianal sent message body.

Apologies for the extensive post. Really hope someone can assist.

Thanks

de049

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Given that the recipient can easily alter the information in the body of the
message, I don't see how putting a date stamp there is going to meet your
requirements. Wouldn't it make more sense to rely on the date stamps that
Outlook puts on the message itself, properties that can't be altered?

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Any recipient would be able to alter it, all they have to do is click to
edit the received message. To prevent that you'd need to be using some sort
of rights management software. In addition, there are no table cells in
Outlook emails normally unless a table is specifically added and the email
is in HTML or Rich Text format.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/stampdate.htm for some ideas.