atluri@berlioz (Venkata R. Atluri) (05/17/89)
Hello! Can somebody tell me if there is an automatic way to read in the signature ( the fancy stuff that you put at the end of your posting) without using "~r signature". can it be done with "~a" or "~A"? Thank you ---atluri
obg@eltek.jakgym.se (Olof Backing) (05/18/89)
In article <225@berlioz.nsc.com> atluri@berlioz (Venkata R. Atluri) writes: >Hello! > >Can somebody tell me if there is an automatic way to read in the >signature ( the fancy stuff that you put at the end of your posting) >without using "~r signature". can it be done with "~a" or "~A"? It depends on what kind of program that you're using. The standard mail/mailx doesn't handle automatic signaturefiles, but more advanced mailers like Elm, rmail (under GNuEMacs) and perhaps mh and mush will handle such features. I should also point out that rn and Pnews does include the signaturefile if there is any. regards, Olof -- Olof Backing UUCP: {unido, mcvax}!sunic!eltek!obg Havrevagen 14 Internet: obg@jakgym.se S-175 43 Jarfalla, Sweden Voice: 0758-35516
ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E. Saddler III) (05/18/89)
In article <225@berlioz.nsc.com>, atluri@berlioz (Venkata R. Atluri) asks: > Can somebody tell me if there is an automatic way to read in the > signature ( the fancy stuff that you put at the end of your posting) > without using "~r signature". can it be done with "~a" or "~A"? Postnews looks for a file called '.signature' in you're home directory. Just rename you're 'signature' to '.signature' > Thank you You're welcome > ---atluri -- Ray E. Saddler III | __ __ __ __ | UseNet Boeing Aerospace | / / / // //| // | uw-beaver!ssc-vax!ray3rd P.O. Box 3999 m.s. 3R-05 | /-< / //- // |// _ | PhoneNet Seattle, Wa. 98124 USA | /__//_//__ // //__/ | 1+206-657-2824
jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight) (05/19/89)
From article <196@eltek.jakgym.se>, by obg@eltek.jakgym.se (Olof Backing): > In article <225@berlioz.nsc.com> atluri@berlioz (Venkata R. Atluri) writes: >> >>Can somebody tell me if there is an automatic way to read in the >>signature..... > > It depends on what kind of program that you're using. The standard > mail/mailx doesn't handle automatic signaturefiles..... Not so! It just takes a little more time to set up. This is for ucb mail but I believe it works for mailx as well. I had (before I started using ELM) a .mailrc which had the line set sendmail=/fs/cs/jonathan/bin/mailsign which tells mail to use my mailsign program to deliver the mail and not /usr/lib/sendmail. The mailsign program looked like this: #! /bin/sh # This shell script will add by .signature file onto mail # in the same way its done for my postings. (cat; \ echo ''; \ cat $HOME/.signature ) | /usr/lib/sendmail $* which as you can see copies the mail, a blank line, and then my signature into sendmail which is called with the normal argument list. Does the job very well, it can also be used to add header lines by 'echo'ing the header before doing the 'cat'. -- ______ JANET :jonathan@uk.ac.keele.cs Jonathan Knight, / BITNET:jonathan%cs.kl.ac.uk@ukacrl Department of Computer Science / _ __ other :jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk University of Keele, Keele, (_/ (_) / / UUCP :...!ukc!kl-cs!jonathan Staffordshire. ST5 5BG. U.K.
atluri@berlioz (Venkata R. Atluri) (05/23/89)
Hello again Thanks for all the replies I got for the question on signature I finally solved my problem by using the shell script posted by Jonathan Knight of UK. Thanks once again. ---atluri