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Replace the "Send from my Galaxy Note" signature in Android

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It is posible to replace the "Send from my Galaxy Note" signature in Android email app for a html message, formated text with images, or perhaps add a webpage content (not a link) to the email body automatically?

We use a POS running in Galaxy Notes, the program generates a pdf with the invoice info and we need to send this pdf by email and include a message in the body. Please keep in mind that we cant change the POS app that generates the pdf.

We have a webpage with a Welcome message, the email body should be the content of this page.

Thanks in advanced,
 
1) "Images" in HTML are just links to picture files. You'd have to include the picture file in the email. (You'd also have to make sure that all your email recipients can read HTML email and that all of them do. It's just too easy to set your email program to delete anything with HTML without even notifying you that it arrived. It's probably commercial spam, so who wants it anyway?)

2) Not every computer is set to read pdf attachments to email files, so some of your recipients might not be seeing what you think they are. (A computer needs a default pdf reader or an email file written to decode pdf, and you're not likely to find the second one. And the first one requires that the recipient click on the link to the pdf file.)

If this were my project, I'd rethink it from the start. First, fire (using real fire) whoever thought up doing it this way. Second, create a dynamic pdf page on the site, showing exactly what you want the recipient to see, including pictures, with a link in the email to that page. (Put a "Print" button on the page, if they my want hard-copy.)

The security to make sure that customer A doesn't see customer B's page is about as ancient and solid as Mt. Everest.

One problem - you have to hire a web developer who actually knows how to develop a website. The "I read a book last week" types usually don't. (Even if the book was "Learn Web Development in Seven Days".) And the people who can actually develop sites like that get paid more than the kids who deliver their lunches, which seems to be a corporate problem these days. ("What? It'll cost money? Come up with a plan B.") But the proper way to present important data to important customers is to present it in a way that looks like you're running a business, not a 3rd grade class.
 
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