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jdhossei@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joshua Hosseinoff) wrote in
<1992Nov6.001501.21652@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>:

| This may sound like a naive question, but how can one get the
| mailx program in the Korn Shell to automatically append
| a .sig file to every outgoing message?  I know
| about using ~(tilde)r .sig to include the file manually, but
| is there any way that this can be made automatic when i press
| ^D or . on a blank line?  Do i have to add something to
| my .mailrc file?  Any help would be appreciated.

It can be a little easier: define the variable $sign to contain the text of
your signature [for example, sign="`cat /path/to/sigfile`" ; export sign
in your .profile or set sign = "{entire text of your signature}" in your
.mailrc].  Then ~a will append it to your outgoing letter.  It's still not
automatic, but it's an improvement over typing out the name of the signature
file, especially when it's in a different directory from the one in which you
started mailx.

Note that the sign variable must contain the text itself, not the name of a
file containing the text.  You can have a second signature available by
defining the variable Sign; you append $sign with ~a and $Sign with ~A.

It's in the manual pages.

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