Re: [Evolution] ~/.signature

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Prior to using Evolution, I had ~/.signature which was a link (so I can
> easily point to different sigs).  Evolution commandeered ~/.signature by
> removing the link and putting its sig there (how rude).  Any way to tell
> it to NOT use ~/.signature?  I have four accts and four sigs - it only
> used ~/.signature for my default acct so why can't it store that sig in
> the same manner as the others?

Oh well, kinda long discussion, and here bis the detailed solution: ;-)


Evolution (>= 1.2) uses the directory ~/evolution/signatures to store
its own signatures. They are numbered. By default there is never a
~/.signature involved.

To have your signatures elsewhere (maybe shared), create a signature and
go to the evolution signatures directory. Remove the just created
signature and make a symlink:

$ ln -s ~/.signature signature-0

You now effectively share this signature. This linking works for me
without any problem since 1.2.x versions.


As the "signature-0" is stored in GConf (only Evo 1.4.x), you even can
edit this values to make it point somewhere else (config.xmldb for Evo
1.2.x).


Mike: Reading your posts, it seems you created the links the wrong way
around, did you?

...guenther


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