Re: signatures??

[steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)]

I'm totally confused now as to what you were asking for.

>>>>> "John" == John Perry <perry@vishnu.alias.net> writes:

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
    Steven> (setq mail-signature "\n-- \nsteve@miranova.com baur")

    Steven> This method works with Mail and News, and XEmacs and
    Steven> Emacs.

    John> 	Your method shows how to insert text in the draft
    John> buffer rather than being appended when the article is
    John> sent. I was hoping to have the contents of my ~/.signature
    John> file inserted into the draft buffer at the time I'm creating
    John> the message rather than have it appended at the time it'
    John> sent.

I read your original request as wanting a mechanism to have the
.signature included prior to editing so that a PGP signature would
*include* the .signature.

I personally tend to shy away from automatic signature insertion for
two reasons:  It can be bloody difficult to turn off, it's too easy to
get doubled signatures.

My original response, while based on recent experience with September
Gnus should also work with Gnus 5 due to using only Emacs constructs.

    John> the excerpt from the info page below shows how to do
    John> this but I can't seem to get it to work. Maybe the syntax
    John> I'm using is wrong or something. In other words, I can't
    John> seem to get my ~/.signature included in the original draft
    John> by setting mail-signature to t. Any comments?

If the major mode that you edit mail messages in is not Mail, then all
bets are off.

    John>      `gnus-signature-file', which is a bit confusing.  If
    John> `mail-signature' is `t', it will insert `~/.signature'.  If
    John> it is a string, this string will be inserted.

If you're using mh-e, it uses mh-signature-file-name instead.

A lot of stress and confusion could be reduced if Gnus had a single
unified post/mail compose mode.
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steve@miranova.com baur