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From: jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: signature
Message-ID: <608@kl-cs.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 12:46:05 GMT
References: <196@eltek.jakgym.se>
Organization: University of Keele, England
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From article <196@eltek.jakgym.se>, by obg@eltek.jakgym.se (Olof Backing):
> In article <225@berlioz.nsc.com> atluri@berlioz (Venkata R. Atluri) writes:
>>
>>Can somebody tell me if there is an automatic way to read in the 
>>signature.....
> 
> It depends on what kind of program that you're using. The standard
> mail/mailx doesn't handle automatic signaturefiles.....

Not so!  It just takes a little more time to set up.

This is for ucb mail but I believe it works for mailx as well.

I had (before I started using ELM) a .mailrc which had the line

	set   sendmail=/fs/cs/jonathan/bin/mailsign

which tells mail to use my mailsign program to deliver the mail
and not /usr/lib/sendmail.  The mailsign program looked like this:

	#! /bin/sh
	# This shell script will add by .signature file onto mail
	# in the same way its done for my postings.
	(cat; \
	 echo ''; \
	 cat $HOME/.signature ) | /usr/lib/sendmail $*

which as you can see copies the mail, a blank line, and then my
signature into sendmail which is called with the normal argument
list.  Does the job very well, it can also be used to add header
lines by 'echo'ing the header before doing the 'cat'.
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