Auto datestamp on email body

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de049

Hi all,

My first post here, so thanks for your time before i start.

My issue is as follows:

We need to send a shift handover email every evening and was wonderin
what would be the easiest way to have a datestamp set in a particula
area of the message body (within a designated table cell if possible).
This datestamp would need to be applied either when forwarding the emai
or when sending (or whenver for that matter so long as it gets applie
automatically).

The whole idea of automating this is that we dont leave th
datestamping open to manual error (by forgetting to include it one day
and so that the recipient is not able to alter this as it would be par
of the origianal sent message body.

Apologies for the extensive post. Really hope someone can assist.

Thanks

de049
 
Given that the recipient can easily alter the information in the body of the
message, I don't see how putting a date stamp there is going to meet your
requirements. Wouldn't it make more sense to rely on the date stamps that
Outlook puts on the message itself, properties that can't be altered?
 
Any recipient would be able to alter it, all they have to do is click to
edit the received message. To prevent that you'd need to be using some sort
of rights management software. In addition, there are no table cells in
Outlook emails normally unless a table is specifically added and the email
is in HTML or Rich Text format.

See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/stampdate.htm for some ideas.
 
eamil time stamp in body

Perhaps I understand the question because I have exactly the same issue. I am not concerned with what people might do to edit the time stamp on the other end. Unless there was some great coordinated conspiracy, a different timestamp on the email would only expose the person who altered it.

The question is simpler that that, but I don't know the answer. I want to display the date and time sent in a field in the body of the email automatically. We have an email stationary that says, "Type Date Here" right now, but people, being the humans that they are, mess up for a whole host of reasons, not the least of which is they want to take extra time to make the submission.

In the code, if you look at the properties, there is a date and time property for when the email was sent. It looks like this: "Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:14:14 -0400" What I am trying to figure out is how to write code that will put that (perhaps transformed into a more readable presentation) in the body of the email so that it is easy for the recipients to see when the email was sent within the context of the document.

At my first attempt, I made a mistake and put:


document.write(Date());


Which, if it is not obvious what is wrong with that, then it makes me feel good to know that other people are capable of the same mistake. (It put the time that you opened the email in the text, updated every time you open it. Really, stupid on my part. Might use that as proof of when the recipient first opened the email, though.) I don't know how to read the Date information from the properties and insert in in the text.
 
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