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From: mrp@sirius.ua.oz (Mark Prior)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Local and remote signatures - a solution(?)
Keywords: signatures
Message-ID: <398@sirius.ua.oz>
Date: 30 May 89 02:54:10 GMT
Reply-To: mrp@sirius.ua.oz (Mark Prior)
Organization: University Computing Services, University of Adelaide
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I think most of the problems with signatures would be solved if it was
possible to configure what addresses the user considered were local.
Suppose there existed a file (eg. .elm/local_addresses) that contained
address templates that indicated to elm which addresses were to be assumed
as local, these templates could be either addresses with wildcards or
aliases from the user's (or system's) alias files. For example I would
consider all mail to people at the Uni to be local and maybe some mail to
other people outside as local (ie I want to use a local signature) so I
would have a file like -

*@*ua.oz.au
person-alias
group-alias

Elm would then pattern match on these templates to determine whether the
addresses were `local' or not and then append the appropriate signature
file to my mail message.

Mark.
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