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From: ahby@meccts.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: permanent solution to double .signatures
Message-ID: <2136@meccts.MECC.COM>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 19:42:51 EST
Article-I.D.: meccts.2136
Posted: Tue Feb  3 19:42:51 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Feb-87 07:20:34 EST
References: <250@unisoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: ahby@meccts.UUCP (Shane P. McCarron)
Organization: MECC Technical Services, St. Paul, MN
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In article <250@unisoft.UUCP> jef@unisoft.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
>It seems that a lot of people send out articles with two copies of their
>.signature appended.  The cause of this seems fairly obvious to me.  Pnews
>and Rnmail handle .signatures differently - Pnews (actually inews) always
>appends the .signature, but Rnmail asks first.

Pnews actually appends the .signature for you if you are posting to a
moderated group, and then sends the mail on to recmail or sendmail,
depending on your configuration.

>So I made some trivial changes to Pnews and
>Rnmail, and now they append my signature before they go into the editor,
>where I can change it or delete it as I wish.  While I was at it, I also
>made signature-generation the responsibility of a script.

Unfortunately, this is not a whole solution.  The program recmail (in
news version 2.10.3 and later), which Rnmail and Pnews use to relay mail,
also appends the .signature file.  As a matter of fact, it does it without 
asking!  This behavior should only be exhibited if you are not running
sendmail.  Rnmail and Pnews will call sendmail before recmail.

My solution to this problem was to just delete all of the .signature
handling code in both Pnews and Rnmail.  This seems to be working.  As
an aside, if on the command line for rn you place:

	-EEXINIT="+set wm=10"

(and you are using vi as your editor) then vi will behave as a 'word
processor', handling the newline generation for you at word breaks
near the end of line.
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