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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: New Elm behavior
Message-ID: <5423@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 27 May 89 04:01:32 GMT
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Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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J. Philip Miller writes:
+Anyway to know (while you are editing the outgoing message) what signature elm
+ntends to append?

Rob Bernardo writes:
+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

J. Philip Miller writes:
+I cannot figure out how to know what the to or cc addresses are WHILE I AM
+EDITING THE MESSAGE.  The only way that I know how to do that is to stop
+editing the file, go to the headers menu and figure it out from the to & cc
+lines displayed there.

I'm not sure why you're saying this. ELM figures it out for you. And it
figures it out after you have gotten past all opportunity to change the
to list or cc list, i.e. after you enter 's' on the send menu. (Prior
to that you could enter 'h' and change the  to and cc headers.) That's
why ELM needs to wait until this point, (which is after you edit your
message), before it can accurately decide which signature file to use.
This is why the old method was technically inaccurate: you could change
the to list or cc list *after* ELM made its decision.

+In a posting in reply to another note in this thread I indicated that one way
+of helping all of these problems would be to allow the user to change the name
+of the file that elm will include as the signature file as part of the header
+menu.

Or simply DON'T define the signature files in your elmrc, and then jsut
read them in while you're in your editor.
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