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From: karl@mstar.MorningStar.COM (Karl Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Local and remote signatures - a solution(?)
Keywords: signatures
Message-ID: <1109@mstar.MorningStar.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 15:53:32 GMT
References: <398@sirius.ua.oz>
Reply-To: karl@MorningStar.COM (Karl Fox)
Organization: Morning Star Technologies, Columbus, Ohio
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A simple and flexible scheme for dealing with signatures would be to
have a line in the options screen for defining a command to execute to
generate a signature (give it the message on stdin).  It could be empty
for no signature, "cat $HOME/.signature" for a fixed signature, or a
special-purpose (shell?) program that could decide what to print based
on the To: field.

It might even be desirable for such a program to see destination
addresses before aliases are expanded -- a mailing list might always
need a certain signature that isn't appropriate for every day mail.
This would also allow inserting the output in the (external) editor
buffer, a feature that I really like.

Besides, this way I could still use Elm and yet have `yow` output in my
.signature!
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Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies               karl@MorningStar.COM