From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/4350 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: signatures?? Date: 10 Dec 1995 14:43:52 -0800 Organization: Miranova Systems, Inc. Message-ID: References: <199512101400.IAA24163@vishnu.alias.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.31) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035145109 29296 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:18:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA00968 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 15:16:50 -0800 Original-Received: from miranova.com (steve@miranova.com [204.212.162.100]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 23:43:29 +0100 Original-Received: (from steve@localhost) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA00801; Sun, 10 Dec 1995 14:43:54 -0800 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no X-Url: http://www.miranova.com/%7Esteve/ In-Reply-To: John Perry's message of 10 Dec 1995 06:00:05 -0800 Original-Lines: 27 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.21/XEmacs 19.13 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:4350 >>>>> "John" == John Perry writes: >>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur writes: Steven> (setq mail-signature "\n-- \nsteve@miranova.com baur") Steven> This method works with Mail and News, and XEmacs and Steven> Emacs. John> Can you set mail-signature to a filename rather than a John> string? I tried to set it to a filename and that's what John> seems to not have worked. Maybe my syntax was wrong. Nope. If you want mail-signature to insert a file, you do (setq mail-signature t) (setq mail-signature-file "~/.your-signature-file") mail-signature-file defaults to "~/.signature". A (silly) portability issue exists between XEmacs and Emacs if you use this mechanism. One (Emacs) inserts the "-- " and the other (XEmacs) doesn't. :-(. You always want to have a standard "-- " before a .signature so that smart readers like Gnus can hide them if desired. -- steve@miranova.com baur