Item199: Offer practical and easy solutions for Foswiki-signatures (2h)

It is defined in the bylaws, that Foswiki-Users, that send out mails to other (possibly new) users should use a Foswiki-Footer and reply-to-address.

I see a big challenge in realizing this suggestion. Today people just hit reply and send out their mails. They contain their footers.

• If we want to change the footer, we could do that in the mail-template, if mails are copied.
• If we want another reply-address, that needs extra manual effort for every mail.
• If we even want "foswiki"-from adresses, people will have to get an email-account on this domain (otherwise their mails will likely be classified as spam).

Please advise on how to operationalize this suggestion.

-- MartinSeibert - 16 Nov 2008 - 14:16

I can handle multiple mail accounts in Outlook including footer. Despite this we are working only on the bylaws and including lessons learned from TWiki.org. Please ask community members that have know how in technical e-mail issues to find an operational solution. I am sure that everybody agrees that we are in a transition period and are going to live with some improvisations for a while. JensHansen

Some comment. This Task item framework seems not to work properly for other items than technical release issues. I have no clue where to change the status to.

-- JensHansen - 16 Nov 2008 - 15:06

I changed to "being worked on".

-- MartinSeibert - 16 Nov 2008 - 16:21

I cannot see what this one is good for.

I am not personally going to implement special mail templates just for this. I do not even use one for myself.

The mailing lists can add footers. But if a person sends a personal email it all depends on the mail client. Half the time I use webmail. No way I will bother spending time pasting special footers into my webmail.

-- KennethLavrsen - 30 Nov 2008

I will close this one. I think it is obsolete. We have agreed to sign "Foswiki Member" in "official" Mails. -- MartinSeibert - 31 Jan 2009