Re: Signatures
* Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-24-11 20:17 +0100]: Just another quetion: Is there a possibility to tell mutt to coose the signature randomly out of a directory? I'll once again plug my approach, which is to use fortune for the random part of my sig. I don't generally like reinventing wheels. set signature=cat ~/sigs/prefix;/usr/games/fortune ~/sigs/sig_archive;cat ~/sigs/suffix | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / DNRC / UMBC-LUG: http://linux.umbc.edu PGP public key fingerprint: 0A7D B3AD 2D10 1099 7649 AB64 04C2 05A6 --- -- Second Law of Fashion: Any female character's costume, no matter how outlandish, is always completely suitable to wear when climbing around in caves, hiking across the desert, and slogging through the sewers. -- Console Role Playing Game Clichés, item 73 --- --
Re: Signatures
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:58:04PM -0500, Harold Bibik wrote:
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:17:43PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter arranged the electrons
something like this:
Just another quetion:
Is there a possibility to tell mutt to coose the signature randomly
out of a directory?
I use a sig generator called makesig, a perl script that will choose a
random quote from a given file, add it to your chosen sig and stick
it a the bottom of your emails
Here's a shellscript someone posted some time back, I just began using
it the other day (when, after an OS upgrade the hack Id been using for
years decided to no longer work). I would expect it's a lot more
lightweight than a perl script:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# from mutt mailing list...
{
typeset afile
set -A allsigs `cd ~/.sigs;ls -a sig[0-9]*`
(( afile = $RANDOM % ${#allsigs[*]} ))
cat ~/.sigs/${allsigs[$afile]}
}
Drop this in a file somewhere, make it executable, name it 'randisg' (or
whatever you like, really), set up the signature in mutt to be
/path/to/randsig | and voila!
Of course, you also need a set of files in a directory (in this case it's
/.sigs) each of which contains one signature.
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Re: Signatures
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:17:43PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter arranged the electrons something like this: Just another quetion: Is there a possibility to tell mutt to coose the signature randomly out of a directory? I use a sig generator called makesig, a perl script that will choose a random quote from a given file, add it to your chosen sig and stick it a the bottom of your emails I believe it's still available at: http://www.h.shuttle.de/mitch/makesig_pl.en.html if not a quick search of google or freshmeat should give you a link -- And remember, rebooting your brain can be tricky. -- Eric Townsend =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Harold Bibik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: signatures
J McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 11 Mar 2000: Is there a way to make part of my signature appear above the 2 dashes? Well, you can unset $sig_dashes and then include them in your own signature file. In this case, make sure to note that the signature separator is actually "-- " (with the space), not just two dashes. Regards, Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / "Why don't you pick a fight with someone your own size?" (Dragonheart)
Re: signatures
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 02:31:22PM +, J McKitrick wrote: Is there a way to make part of my signature appear above the 2 dashes? Or is that really just a template? Sure. Create the signature the way you want it to look including the two dashes (which are followed by a blank space, btw). Save all that in your signature file. Then, turn sigdashes off in your .muttrc. -- Jon Parise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . Rochester Inst. of Technology http://www.pobox.com/~parise/ : Computer Science House Member
Re: signatures
J McKitrick writes: Is there a way to make part of my signature appear above the 2 dashes? Or is that really just a template? The sole purpose of the signature separator (dash dash space) is to separate the signature from the text of the email. Anything above the dashes is not a signature, by definition.
