Outlook Express- Signature file too large?

Question

I've decided that I want to start seperating my e-mails... and use my full version of Outlook for work and Outlook Express for my personal e-mail (I suspect this *may* have be be a little more productive during the work day, lol).

Anyway, it looks like I can import my contacts and do many of the things I want it to do... but I can't seem to figure out how to customize/enhance the signature to include a little color and/or a link in it, etc.

It has an option (for the signature) to "include file" so I took some very basic html and made a signature that way and have the "include file" point to that html file (it was like two lines with a link in it) and I get the error message "Your signature file is too large- it has been truncated. Please make the file smaller."

Any suggestions?

Thanks for any input!

DGuess · Answer

The basic HTML is all you can use, no HEAD section nor nothing in the BODY tag.

When you select the File for the signature, from

Tools | Options | Signatures tab

Select NEW

Select File then BROWSE and change the File of Type to HTML Files (*.htm)

Your basic HTML can include a font and color, an image and anchor. I would suggest putting that info in a DIV tag and nothing in the BODY tag (leave any CSS out and no HEAD tag as well as it will be ignored. Just within the BODY of the document.

craiger33 · Answer

Thanks DGuess,

I'm not real familiar with html... do you know any good resources online I can do this, or am I going to have to use FrontPage or something like that?

I appreciate you taking the time to post, I was starting to wonder what to do next...

lydthekid · Answer

You might find some help here.

Denny Denham · Answer

craiger33, Take a look at this or the text version here.

craiger33 · Answer

WOW Denny AWESOME resource!!

Too Kewl, I think that gives me everything I need now. I was looking for a simple html tool, but I this "viewlet" showed me what I was doing wrong (trying to save the Word docs as html was putting in too many unnecessary tags in there, using NOTEPAD as an in-between step was just the trick I was missing!!)

Thanks for sending me that link, I GREATLY appreciate you taking the time to post (and to create those cool viewlets too). Awesome, and thanks again!!

lydthekid, thanks for taking the time to post as well, that link helped too.

DGuess · Answer

Look at http://www.mindspring.com/~majik/docs.htm I think there is still some basic info on OE still there.

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Outlook Express- Signature file too large?

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