email disclaimer footer

[srochford]

our email system doesnt append any disclaimer or such to any emails sent from school email accounts.

I was considering adding my own, just in case.

Should i bother?

In a word, no!

Grumbledook and others explain it better but basically there is no real point in legal terms - all it does is serve to annoy people or make them laugh at you (eg the one in this thread is typical "this message does not represent the views of this school" looks pretty stupid when sent in an official mail from the head, business manager etc establishing a contract)

[rvdmast]

If i have 2 exchange servers, one of them making the actual connection to the internet, the other just hosting the student mail boxes, will i have to install this on both servers?

Or, the other way around, if i just install this on the staff exchange server will it append the disclaimer only to staff email?

[actech]

I was under the assumption that it appends the disclaimer to the email on the way out of the system. I can't say however whether it will do that if the student exchange is just using the staff exchange as the gateway to the net.

I would just try installing it to the staff server and run a few tests to see what happens. If possible could you post the results here?

[dalsoth]

Hi guys, i searched for email disclaimers for exchange and found this thread. I downloaded the script kindly supplied in this thread and have had no luck getting it to work on our Exchange server. We are using Exchange 2003. I ran the script from a folder on the Exchange server and had the dos box appear and disappear quickly. After that i tested a few emails from outlook after restarting it and there was no sign of any disclaimer.

Does the server need a reboot? I tried restarting a few exchange services just in case as it was early enough that no teachers were in school yet but had no joy when testing mail again.

Any suggestions?

I looked at part of the disclaim.bat file and it mentioned C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\Scripts\EventSinkScript.vbs

I checked and there was no Scripts folder in this location so i even created it and added the 4 files to it and ran it again from there with no luck.

Any help would be appreciated as we have no funds to purchase additional software at the moment.

[Dom_]

From what i understood reading, the scripts adds them for outgoing mail when it passes through exchange, so you won't see it in your outbox. Were you testing with your own external email address?

[dalsoth]

I tested by sending mail from my school outlook client to 2 external web based mail accounts i use. One was hotmail, the other was googlemail. Neither saw any disclaimer.

[Dom_]

No idea then I'm gonna have a play with it later too - will let you know how i get on...

[dalsoth]

Thanks, would appreciate the feedback.

[SteveBentley]

In your template, make sure it starts with

--

or similar, so that:

a) Any competent mail client will not bother to quote that part of the message in replies

b) It will be ignored when sending commands to the likes of majordomo and listserv systems