Vcard in signautre is not Windows-friendly
I have no problems sending normal attachments as Windows-friendly attachments, but I recently encountered a problem with sending a vCard as part of my standard email signature.
Because you drag-and-drop the vCard into the signature file, there is no (obvious) way to make this file Windows-friendly. Not recognizing the potential problem here, I included this vCard in my standard signature for a period of about a month. For most users, there were no problems as most users in my office use Thunderbird, which handled this just fine. However, I began to notice problems when working with folks using Microsoft Outlook and Hotmail, particularly when I would reply to or forward a message. Essentially, anything that was included below my vCard would be dropped from the email entirely, so they would not see the email I was referencing.
I eventually figured out what was going on and removed the vCard, and everything works fine now. However, as the primary client-facing POC for my office, I'd really like to be able to include that extra bit of contact info in my signature.
At one point I actually tried sending a copy of the vCard to myself as a standard, Windows-friendly attachment and dropping the resulting file directly into the signature, but that did not seem to help the problem; clearly the resource fork is getting recreated at some point between receiving the file and re-posting it in Mail.
Does anybody know of a way to get a Windowd-friendly vCard into a Mail.app signature?
Because you drag-and-drop the vCard into the signature file, there is no (obvious) way to make this file Windows-friendly. Not recognizing the potential problem here, I included this vCard in my standard signature for a period of about a month. For most users, there were no problems as most users in my office use Thunderbird, which handled this just fine. However, I began to notice problems when working with folks using Microsoft Outlook and Hotmail, particularly when I would reply to or forward a message. Essentially, anything that was included below my vCard would be dropped from the email entirely, so they would not see the email I was referencing.
I eventually figured out what was going on and removed the vCard, and everything works fine now. However, as the primary client-facing POC for my office, I'd really like to be able to include that extra bit of contact info in my signature.
At one point I actually tried sending a copy of the vCard to myself as a standard, Windows-friendly attachment and dropping the resulting file directly into the signature, but that did not seem to help the problem; clearly the resource fork is getting recreated at some point between receiving the file and re-posting it in Mail.
Does anybody know of a way to get a Windowd-friendly vCard into a Mail.app signature?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Mail 3.5