Re: [Evolution] Not able to include a signature

[Teletchéa Stéphane <steletch steletch org>]

Le jeu 30/10/2003 à 17:42, guenther a écrit :
> > After i did an upgrade to evolution 1.2.4, i'm not able to use anymore a
> > signature generator.
> >
> > Before, i had a cron making it as ~/.signature and it was auto-included
> > automatically.
> >
> > I didn't found this option in the new evolution, so i tried to do it as
> > a script. It appears in my signature drop-down menu, but when i select
> > it, nothing appears.
> >
> > Can someone help for including my signature ?
>
> The "Script Signature" option will execute the specified file and use
> it's output as signature. This will fail, as your ~/.signature file
> likely neither is a script nor is it executable.

I found my error (sometimes explaining it helps finding the light from
the dark) ...

You need to specify the shebang (#!/bin/cash) in the script, and it
works like this !!

I could have found this before ...

> Create a signature using Evolutions Settings. Leave it empty or use a
> string for identification. This will create a file in your
> ~/evolution/signatures/ directory.
>
> You can remove that file and make a symlink to ~/.signature instead.
> Evolution will happily use it then.
>
> That way, you can leave your cron job untouched and the signature will
> still change on a daily basis. HTH

Thanks for the tip but the cron was already a hack to evolution 1.0 not
able to run a script. Now that it is gone with 1.2+, i can use only the
script ...

> ...guenther

Stef


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