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- From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
- Subject: Re: Appending .sig to outgoing email automatically
- Message-ID: <BxD2EA.2zs@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:34:57 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.001501.21652@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois 60657
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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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