[SUMMARY]: Signature in mail

From: <deya_at_Pyramids.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 13:40:29 +0000

Thanks to every one replied to my question about adding a signature
to every message like pine , but using DXMAIL , and including the message
when replying .
The following is a summary of all the replies :

1 )
    J. Henry Priebe Jr. Wrote :

I use pine 3.91 and it always looks for a .signature file in the home
dir when it goes into compose mode. I highly recommend pine for all our
users' mail management needs. The .signature file will append with some
other mail packages as well.

2)
    Hi Deya,

Create a file called .siganture in your home directory. It solves
your problem.

Have a nice day.

Charu
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[But this doesn't work with dxmail , only with pine , may be elm . Deya]


3)

Deya,

If you are using DXMAIL or MH the answer is YES, you need to look at the compse
and forward/reply forms in
the /usr/lib/mh (?) directory [its in the man pages ]. with a little editting
you can get exactly what
you want, just like this message.

If you need any more help, I'll send me files over

4)
High,

you only have to write a file in your home-dir named .sign;
.sign should content your signature. That's all.

Greatings from south end of northern sea in germany

Andreas Schuenemann



5)Hi Deya,

I use pine v3.91 mail program. I think it's a very good program and you
can make a signature file. Pine adds this file to every message. When you
forward a message pine makes a header with your signature.

Best Regards,
             Gyula Szemenyei


Hi,
I'm sorry for my forgetting to attach the ftp site's address:
ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine

You can download it from Digital's archive (ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com)

Regards,
        Gyula Szemenyei



6)

Thanks to Richard Hughes, I send him extra details .

7)
try createing a file called .signature. most mailers recognize
it and do the right thing.

-- craig

8)


It depends on what mail program you use, or I suppose you could write a
ruleset for sendmail (UGH!). I use Pine for Unix, it is a very flexible
mailer with everything could ever want. I will allow you to auto-append
sig files, save all sent mail to a specific folder, read usenet news, has
batch selecton techniques... etc...

Good Luck! -Andy

9)


I am not sure if you can add a signature to your messages using the digital
mail client, but you can if you use Pine. With pine, just create a
.signature file and put your signature there. It will be used
automatically.

Hope this helps...
Tim Winders
[ Yes Tim , you can add it but instead of segnature file you use components file
in the Mail directory .]

See Next Reply :

10 ) Thanks Garrett for this solution as it was the simplest one .


It depends on your mailer. If you are using mh or dxmail, edit
Mail/components to look something like this...

Reply-To: gvs_at_convergent.com
To:
cc:
Subject:
-----

---
Garrett Van Siclen	Convergent Media System
Product Manager         205 Porter Road
Interactive Media	Littleton, MA  01460
508.486.3030            508.952.4630 (FAX)
          http://www.convergent.com/
11) Ken , more detailed , some changes will allow the use of .signature ..
Hi - if you add the following 
	set sendmail='/usr/people/ken/bin/.signmymail'
after replacing the above path (needless to say) in your 
	$HOME/.mailrc file 
and place the following shell script 
	#!/bin/sh
	# send mail with the signature appended
	if [ -f $HOME/.signature ]; then
  	cat - $HOME/.signature | /usr/lib/sendmail $*
	else
  		/usr/lib/sendmail $*
	fi
in 
	$HOME/bin/.signmail 
where 
	$HOME/.signature 
is the file containing your signature, this will sign you email 
automatically.
-- Ken 
Thakns Ken , Deya
12) Cont. of previous message -------
Hi - and to keep a copy of forwarded messages in the <userid> mailbox, add 
	\<userid>, <forward address> 
to your $HOME/.forward file (and make sure the .forward file is owned by 
the user and not by root.) 
-- Ken 
Thanks again for every one who replied , hope that this summary didn't  miss
any one who replied to my original message .
Deya
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