Re: [Evolution] Signatures?

[Philippe Chartier <chartiep cybersciences com>]

Le mar 02/07/2002 à 20:26, Ben FrantzDale a écrit :
> On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 13:41, Langsley T Russell wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm new to the list, new to Evolution, and new to Linux.
> >
> > When I was using Windows and Outlook express there was a method of
> > adding preformatted signatures to an email. I could simply click on an
> > icon and select which signature I wanted to use. I value this feature
> > quite highly as I use a number of different signatures depending on
> > whether I'm signing a professional correspondence, an email to a mailing
> > list I'm a member of, a mailing list I host, etc. Is there some way to
> > create a multiple signature file and have it readily available to insert
> > a signature. 
> >
> > It would be handy if other blocks of text (things like URLS with brief
> > descriptions) could be made similarly available.
> >
> > Is there any way I can conveniently do these things using Evolution as
> > my e-mail client?
>
> I don't think there's a good way to do this at the moment. You can
> select a sig file for each mail account you have, though. Thus one way
> to do what you want would be to make several mail acocunts, only one of
> them setup for incoming mail, and each with a different sig. You could
> then select the account you wanted to use from the dropdown "From:"
> menu.
>
> Again, this isn't perfect.
>
> --Ben

I had the same problem about signatures and this is the solution I found
as well.

It takes some time to configure the multiple accounts but when it's
done, it works quite well.

> I forget if this is doable in 1.0.x, but the development versions
> (1.1.x) can.
>
> Jeff

But I'm happy to know a better solution will be available in 1.1. It
seems to integrate a lot of good things. Can't wait to see it in action!

Ciao.

-- 
Philippe