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Article #1977Re: How do I get a signature line at the bottom?
From: truesdel David A. Truesdell
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 06:42
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 06:42
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rfg@paris.ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette) writes:
>Please excuse my total ignorance, but how can I get MH to append some set
>of say 3-4 lines at the end of every message that I send?
>
>I used to be able to do this by using a .signature file in BSD mail, but
>that doesn't seem to do it for MH.
>
>// rfg (This line inserted manually - what a pain!)
There are three ways that I can think of to do this.
1) Hack sendmail to append a users ".signature" file. (Actually, I thought I
remembered seeing some code ifdef'd out, which would do this.)
2) Hack MH to do the same. (Yuck, to much work!)
3) Write a script which will construct various "comp" files for you. Which is
what I did. I don't change my ".signature" file very often, so I
don't consider having to do this an inconvience.
My script:
#!/bin/sh
sig=${HOME}/.signature
lib=${HOME}/.lib
mail=${HOME}/Mail
cat ${lib}/components ${sig} > ${mail}/components
cat ${lib}/forwcomps ${sig} > ${mail}/forwcomps
cat ${lib}/replcomps > ${mail}/replcomps
cat ${lib}/forwfilter > ${mail}/forwfilter
sed 's/^/:/' < ${sig} | cat ${lib}/replfilter - > ${mail}/replfilter
T.T.F.N.,
dave truesdell (truesdel@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov)
"Testing can show the presense of bugs, but not their absence." -- Dijkstra
"Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs." -- Kernighan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!eos!amelia!sun217!truesdel From: truesdel@sun217..nas.nasa.gov (David A. Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: How do I get a signature line at the bottom? Message-ID: <4891@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> Date: 13 Feb 90 06:42:29 GMT References: <25D78BE4.246@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: news@amelia.nas.nasa.gov Lines: 38