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From: truesdel@sun217..nas.nasa.gov (David A. Truesdell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: How do I get a signature line at the bottom?
Message-ID: <4891@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 13 Feb 90 06:42:29 GMT
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rfg@paris.ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette) writes:
>Please excuse my total ignorance, but how can I get MH to append some set
>of say 3-4 lines at the end of every message that I send?
>
>I used to be able to do this by using a .signature file in BSD mail, but
>that doesn't seem to do it for MH.
>
>// rfg  (This line inserted manually - what a pain!)

There are three ways that I can think of to do this.

1) Hack sendmail to append a users ".signature" file.  (Actually, I thought I
	remembered seeing some code ifdef'd out, which would do this.)

2) Hack MH to do the same.  (Yuck, to much work!)

3) Write a script which will construct various "comp" files for you.  Which is
	what I did.  I don't change my ".signature" file very often, so I
	don't consider having to do this an inconvience.

My script:

#!/bin/sh
sig=${HOME}/.signature
lib=${HOME}/.lib
mail=${HOME}/Mail
cat ${lib}/components ${sig} > ${mail}/components
cat ${lib}/forwcomps  ${sig} > ${mail}/forwcomps
cat ${lib}/replcomps         > ${mail}/replcomps
cat ${lib}/forwfilter        > ${mail}/forwfilter
sed 's/^/:/' < ${sig} | cat ${lib}/replfilter - > ${mail}/replfilter


T.T.F.N.,
dave truesdell (truesdel@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov)

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