On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 06:46, guenther wrote:
cheers();Thanks. This trick works very nicely. Too bad the folks who responded to my wishlist entry didn't mention it. Would have saved me a lot of cursing. My signature below is an example of the .signature file I use - the quote is generated by a perl script, and is saved in the .signature file for use in both email and news readers. As long as I remember to set the format to "Normal" instead of "Preformatted", it even wraps properly.NP. As it's a script, you even can conf Evolution to run a sript, instead of a 'file' that really generates a new signature. ;)
Yup. Tried that when I saw the script option, and discovered that the output from the script is treated as if it's all on one line.
Evolution at leas treats signature scripts as HTML internally -- don't know if plain text signature files are converted. Even when sending plain/text mail, signature scripts are treatet as HTML and converted to plain text.
Yeah. I noticed that. Seems kind of silly to me. But then again, I'm one of those reactionary types who thinks that HTML is for web pages, NOT email. Email is plain text, by definition.
So, maybe you wanna try a script, that generates <br> instead of \n. Another trick is, to put the signature in <pre> </pre> Tags for Evo. Although I didn't try that.
Evolution treats the signature as preformatted when it imports it using your trick. Unfortunately, that means the quote is treated as one long line, instead of wrapping at the appropriate place, unless that line is converted to "normal" formatting.
FWIW: Try a script, that reads (runs?) your ~/.signature and wrap it in <pre> Tag. Just to get rid of that manually re-formatting.
Yup. Tried that. If my other programs recognized html in signatures, it would even work good. Unfortunately, they don't, so what I get is the signature with naked html tags in it. -- All private email sent with PGP encryption. Email for key. Homepage: http://www.macmanusnet.net/ Freedom in our lifetime: http://www.freestateproject.org Enforce the Bill of Rights: http://www.lneilsmith.com/bor_enforcement.html "To the extent that a society limits its government to policing functions which curb the individuals who engage in aggressive and criminal actions, and conducts its economic affairs on the basis of free and willing exchange, to that extent domestic peace prevails. When a society departs from this norm, its governing class begins, in effect, to make war upon the rest of the nation. A situation is created in which everyone is victimized by everyone else under the fiction of each living at the expense of all." -- Edmund A. Opitz
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