bulk signature provisioning

[BrianA]

Hi,

I am trying to set the signatures for all my users. I have a script that creates the signature in html and in plain text.

the problem is that if in the user preferences they have the signature "format as plain text" then the html signature gets broken.

how do I change this setting for all users to be "format as html"

I have done zmprov ga on my account with the setting changed, and there is no changed ldap setting in the output before and after changing the option.

thanks in advance

Brian

[bdial]

disclaimer: this code is written off the top of my head i havn't tested it it's meant to get you on the right path. if you don't understand what it's doing then you may not want to run it

make a shell script and run as zimbra user

#!/bin/bash
for i in `zmprov gaa`
do
   zmprov ma $i zimbraPrefComposeFormat html
done

that will loop through all accounts and set the preferred compose to html

[BrianA]

that changes the default email edit mode, not the signature edit mode..



I am doing this,

set up the account detail..

         print qq{ca $uid\@$domain $password\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain zimbraCOSid "$cosid"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain givenName "$given"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain sn "$surname"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain cn "$uid"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain title "$title"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain displayName "$given $surname"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain telephoneNumber "P:$ph  M:$mob  F:$fax"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain userPassword "$password"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain streetAddress "$addr"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain l "$suburb"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain st "$state"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain postalCode "$postcode"\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain zimbraPasswordMustChange FALSE\n};
         print qq{ma $uid\@$domain zimbraPrefComposeFormat html\n};

create the html sig

        print qq{ma $uid\@$domain  zimbraPrefMailSignatureEnabled TRUE  
zimbraPrefMailSignatureStyle internet zimbraPrefMailSignatureHTML \'};
        print qq{<div><table>};
        print qq{<tr>};
        print qq{<td>};
        print qq{<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">};
        print qq{<b>};
        print qq{$given $surname};
        print qq{</b><br>};
        print qq{$title};
...
       print qq{</table></div>};
        print qq(\'\n);

and the plain text sig

        print qq{ma $uid\@$domain  zimbraPrefMailSignature \'};
        print qq{$given $surname\\n};
        print qq{$title\\n};
...
        print qq(\'\n);

heres an image of the setting thats in question... (attachment)

doing zmprov ga account.name@domain.com.au shows no change when it its set as html or text (I did a diff of the two outputs), yet it makes a big difference on the signature that is displayed.

[bdial]

oh i see what you're saying. yeah i don't see any user setting for that either it may just be hard coded. you might want to file a rfe

[BrianA]

it has to be saved somewhere? its persistant across logins.
I guess I'll just set it via admin login for the users - theres only 60 of them.

[Baylink]

Well, HTML mail is the antiChrist, anyway, but perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut, here. :-)

(Seriously: HTML mail is bad on so many levels; *seriously* consider not setting it as your default.)