[S-mailx] signature

[Stephen Isard]

Steffen,

I don't use a signature myself, but a colleague who does recently 
updated his s-nail from the out of date version in the ubuntu repository 
and got a warning that signature was obsolete and he should use 
on-compose-leave and message-inject-tail.  That is, replace the single 
line

signature=~/.signature

whose meaning is pretty obvious to the ordinary user, with half a dozen 
lines of - if you will forgive my saying so - rather arcane low level 
code.  You shouldn't have to understand the semantics of "vput csop" 
to include a signature your emails.

Please don't misunderstand. I think it is great that you have exposed 
low level workings of s-nail so that, for instance, someone who wants to 
include different signatures for different classes of recipients can 
arrange that.  But it shouldn't be at the expense of over-complicating 
everyday use.  Please retain the signature variable.

All that said, I tried making a signature for myself by copying code 
from the man page.  It worked, in that the lines of my .signature file 
got tacked on correctly, but I was surprised to have the contents of 
message-inject-tail echoed to my screen when I sent the message.  Is 
there a way of stopping that?

Stephen Isard