Morning sirs,
Recently I felt the need to restructure all my template management. I
thought maybe some of you might find my results useful.
The idea is to use a few text files for template sources and variables so
that I need to change only these if eg my website changes or I want to use
a different name in a mail.
My situation: I have my own domains and the possibility to use many
different aliases for my email account. So some of this might not be 100%
applicable to you, but that's not a problem.
Detailed examples below.
Step 1:
create seperate text files for identities (name and email
address/reply-to), signatures (eg sigs for personal communication,
business mails, technical mailing lists) and "variables" (eg website,
hardware). One textfile for the common options (eg %singlere macro). Put
all these files in some directory that is unlikely to change (since TB
doesn't support paths relaive to it's homedir, if I am not mistaken.
Correct me if I am.
Step 2:
give the account some generic default template and easily assign templates
to the folders and address book entries by using
%include="<path\filename>"
Generic example:
----------------
Hi %ofromfname,
%cursor
-- <sig seperator>
%include="<path>\<sig>.txt"
%include="<path>\<identity>.txt"
%include="<path>\<common options>.txt"
Step 3:
for best flexibility, create quick templates for changing signatures and
identities on the fly. They might look something like this:
qt: i.business
%include="<path>\<business identity>.txt"
qt: i.pseudonym
%include="<path>\<pseudonym identity>.txt"
qt: s.business
%include="<path>\<business sig>.txt"
qt: s.personal
%include="<path>\<personal signature>.txt"
Now all I have to do is type in the name of the identity or sig and have
it changed in a second! For the signature changing to work correctly, it
is of course important to have the sig seperator in every template and the
%issignature macro in the sig files.
Anyway, if all that wasn't clear enough, on to more specific examples:
In a subdir on my support files partition I have following files with
respective content:
"identities":
ident_business.txt:
%from=""%from="Justin DSC K�ser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
%replyto=""%replyto="Justin DSC K�ser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
ident_personal:
%from=""%from="Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
%replyto=""%replyto="Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
ident_pseudonym.txt:
%from=""%from="Jast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
%replyto=""%replyto="Jast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
variables:
var_url.txt:
http://www.zz-s.de
var_system.txt:
AMD K6-2, 64MB RAM
Sigs:
sig_personal.txt:
%fromname - mailto:%fromaddr
%issignature
sig_business.txt:
Mit freundlichen Gr��en,
%fromname - mailto:%fromaddr
%issignature
sig_technical.txt:
%fromname - mailto:%fromaddr
................................................
: with %include="f:\support\thebat\var_system.txt"
: on %WINDOWSPLATFORMNAME %WINDOWSMAJORVERSION.%WINDOWSMINORVERSION
:%WINDOWSBUILDNUMBER%WINDOWSCSDVERSION
%issignature
sig_tb.txt:
.. %fromname ... mailto:%fromaddr
: using TB %thebatversion
: with %include="f:\support\thebat\var_system.txt"
:. on %WINDOWSPLATFORMNAME %WINDOWSMAJORVERSION.%WINDOWSMINORVERSION
:%WINDOWSBUILDNUMBER%WINDOWSCSDVERSION
%issignature
sig_gcs.txt
.. %fromname ... mailto:%fromaddr
: �eTeCo Coordinator : %include="f:\support\thebat\var_url.txt"
: zz-s community services : IRC jasticE
..........................: AIM jasticle
%issignature
Note the IRC and AIM nicks in this sig could/should be variable files too
if you were consequent about the described concept :-)
other stuff:
common.txt:
%singlere
files for different cookies with different styles :-) Not in use atm.
template for tbudl address book entry:
-----
Morning sirs,
%cursor
--
%include="f:\support\thebat\ident_pseudonym.txt"
%include="f:\support\thebat\sig_tb.txt"
%include="f:\support\thebat\common.txt"
-----
and the same thing for replys to the list:
-----
Morning sirs,
%cursor
--
%include="f:\support\thebat\ident_pseudonym.txt"
%include="f:\support\thebat\sig_tb.txt"
%include="f:\support\thebat\common.txt"
%to=""%to="%ofromname [!udl] <%oreplyaddr>
-----
Okay, any questions/suggestions/comments?
--
.. Jast ... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: using TB 1.41 Beta/3
: with AMD K6-2, 64MB RAM
:. on Windows 98 4.10 2222 A
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