Can I add Javascript or other code to my signature in Outlook?

Question

I want to show a 'countdown', for example "100 days, 5 hours, 15 minutes and 30 seconds" to my signature line in my MS Outlook email messages, and I want it to update automatically (dynamically) every day. Can such a thing be done? And if so, how?

Answer 1

I would advise against it.



Even if your sever allowed it, and the recipient's server allowed it, people don't like JavaScript in their mail, and most people would disable it.



It would have to work in every different e-mail program. And, Outlook would not correctly encode the JavaScript for the signature.



It's pretty much a no-win situation.

Answer 2

You can add JavaScript to an HTML signature, but Outlook will send a warning message to the e-mail recipient that the message you sent contains unsafe code and won't show it to them by default.

Answer 3

It is strongly recommended that you don't do this. Most mail servers will treat JavaScript as malicious content, and block your mail as spam. JavaScript and HTML are very different so while HTML will not get you in trouble, JavaScript probably will.

Answer 4

If you do this, most mail servers will treat it as a risk and rmove it from the mail, and may even drop the mail altogether. If you persistently send to any server with this attached you could also end up blacklisted.

Answer 5

by enabling HTML codes i think yeah u can do it ;)