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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: New Elm behavior
Message-ID: <5419@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 16:05:49 GMT
References: <133@dsinc.DSI.COM> <465@wubios.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <465@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes:
+In article <133@dsinc.DSI.COM> syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
+>
+>The signature is appended to the message, it just doesn't appear in
+>the editor buffer anymore.
+
+Anyway to know (while you are editing the outgoing message) what signature elm
+intends to append?

If any of the to or cc addresses are remote, the remote signature is used.
An address is considered remote if either
	it contains a !
	it contains a @ but is not of the form logname@thishost.thisdomain

One* reason for making the decision between the local and remote
signature *after* editing the message is that the user can change the to
or cc list after editing the message by going into the header editing
screen.  I.e., remote vs.  local cannot be accurately determined until
the message is about to be dispatched to the MTA.
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library
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