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IOD: Generate Outlook Sigs from an RSS Feed

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Today's Idea is simple:  I want the ability to give Outlook an RSS feed.  When I create a new mail I'd like the signature to include the title and link of the most recent posting from the RSS feed.  If I'm lucky someone will tell me that this already exists.

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  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2004
    Go to feedburner.com. They have a service that generates an animated gif that is a banner which rotates through your latest postings (you provide the RSS feed). You then put a <IMG ..> tag in your signature in outlook. I use it all the time :).
  • Anonymous
    November 08, 2004
    That's a pretty cool service they have there. My only complaint is that it looks a little fancy. I think my next appbuilding project will be an outlook add-in that does something simpler (in terms of looking at).
  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2004
    I started looking into this since your post. I thought it sounded like an interesting little project. I have a majority of it completed. You are able to click a button on your tool bar, which pops open a window that prompts for RSS url, time limit for refresh, and saves this information. On the scheduled interval it will download the latest RSS post.

    The problem I am having is with the taking the data I have received from the RSS, and putting in the signature. I have search MSDN, but can not seem to find any public hooks into modifying the signature. Is there anything like this? Where is the signature stored?
  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2004
    Rock On!!! I use outlook 2003 and the signature files are all stored here: C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMEApplication DataMicrosoftSignatures. There are typically three files to update per signature corresponding to each e-mail template type. (signame.htm, signame.rtf, signame.txt)

    Currently, for example, I'm using a feedburner img in my sig. It's only valid to do that in the .htm signature since you can't inline an image in a text or rtf sig.

    Ideally this tool would match the RSS with the sig filename and append the correct information appropriate for each format.

    Does that help?
  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2004
    Yes that does. Thanks I will have more information for you soon.
  • Anonymous
    November 18, 2004
    Very Cool!