Tim; Yes, the 'fly' that you mention is exactly the problem that I foresaw in my own post in this thread -- multiple, conflicting, Address Book- dictated sigs. You say that you do not see the situation arising often, but remember that this thread started with Simon who raised the issue because he regularly experiences that exact situation and hoped for n automatic solution. (Quoting Simon):
>Most of my mail goes to about 5 different people. > >Persons A and B get sig 1 applied. >Person C and D always get sig 2 applied. >Person E always has sig 3 applied. > >Shouldn't I be able to tell PowerMail that those signatures should >always be added to emails going to those people? So Simon is asking to be able to send one email that gets different sigs applied according to which address it is going to. I'm not sure that is possible. The related issue, that of deciding which sig to have in the (presumably) single version of the message that is saved in PM's Out Tray could be kind of solved by Hiro's suggestion of using the first address. ie: >I think most of us are asking simple as applying the top most entry's >assigned sig if multiple recipients has assigned sig conflicts. But this raises other concerns for me; my email database is supposed to represent an accurate record of what text was sent to whom, including signatures. If the text of the saved email reflects what was sent to some recipients but not to others, then this 'permanent record' is defeated, which is a problem IMO. I want to know exactly what I sent to a Person X, not what I sent to Person Y that was similar but not necessarily the same as for X. I don't want my email record to be a matter of remembering and guesswork. Maybe I'm just being overly anal about the accuracy of my PM database. Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.1 :: PM 5.2 :: 3 pane mode Shark Attack: A Design Studio <www.sharkattack.co.uk> -- Original message: Received from Tim Lapin on 15/9/05 at 22:59 >Yes, you point out the only fly in the ointment: What if you are sending >an email to more than one person with a specified signature. > >Perhaps the way out of this is to have a warning POP-UP stating something >like: > > "Two or more of the recipients have conflicting signature choices. > Please choose a signature for this email or resend separately." > >Note that when no signature is specified in my scheme, the default for >the account is used. > >It should be pointed out that the above scenario is not likely to happen >that often. The people to whom you are known by one persona will most >likely be a self contained group engaged in one part of your life. The >other groups will likewise be composed of similar self contained groups. > >Again an example is this list vs. work vs. family vs. other activity.
