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On Wednesday, August 12 at 11:01 AM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm:
> Learning programming makes me think signature-scripting could be a
> nice homework.
Sure - it's really easy.
> I have googled for signature-scripts but with unsatisfying results.
>
> One idea i had: execute "fortune" and writing the output into a ".signature"
> file, which then gets used for mails.
>
> Are there other/smarter approaches?
Well, I wouldn't use fortune to write into a file. Since you can use
the output of a program as your signature, there's no need to use
temporary files. All you need to do is end the signature setting with
a pipe character (|) and mutt will execute it as if it were a command;
for example:
set signature="/usr/bin/fortune|"
Personally, I don't use fortune. I use my quotes for other things,
including a webmail quote-of-the-day, so I keep my quotes in an SQL
database that gets queried by my signature generator script. Part of
the fun with that, then, is ensuring that the formatting is
email-friendly (e.g. lines less than 76 characters long, all ascii,
etc.).
Anyway, good luck!
~Kyle
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison
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