klash@hobbes.uucp (Karl Klashinsky) (08/25/89)
The documentation for elm states that two signatures can be specified, one local and one remote, However, I can't find any details in the docs on how elm determines which signature to use. Does it use the local sig for mail to other users on the same host, and the remote one for everyone else? This would seem a little limiting in today's world of mult-host sites (ie, lots of workstations). Is there a way to tell elm to use the local sig for all mail destined to machines in the current domain, for example? Or to give a list of machines that should receive the local sig? Elm your responses to me :-), or post if you think its of general interest. -- Karl Klashinsky Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. UUCP: ..!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!hobbes!klash Ottawa, Ont, Canada
zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) (09/01/89)
>The documentation for elm states that two signatures can be >specified, one local and one remote, However, I can't > >Does it use the local sig for mail to other users on the >same host, and the remote one for everyone else? This Yes. Of course it is broken by users who want to include the signature before they may have finished addressing the mail. You could make it more flexible but it's just another bell & whistle that makes elm more complex. -- Branch Technology | zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us | Ann Arbor, MI
mike@cochise (09/04/89)
zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
->>The documentation for elm states that two signatures can be
->>specified, one local and one remote, However, I can't
->>
->>Does it use the local sig for mail to other users on the
->>same host, and the remote one for everyone else? This
->Yes.
of course, if you're running smail or any other MTA that handles
aliasing also, you can fool elm into thinking that user@foo.my.org
is local to your machine. We have it set up this way here, and it
works pretty well (this setup actually led to the discovery of the
'elm destroys hard links'-problem, but that's another story;-).
BTW: the suggestions re: using sym- rather than hard links solved
the problem, thanks everyone!
Cheers
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