Re: [Evolution] Scripting signatures

[Robb Westby <robbw mxim com>]

It worked great, thanks Guenther and Gideon! 
On a followup question: How do I get the "Subject Line" to reflect some
information I want generated from the script? Also To:, CC:, etc...

Robb


On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:45 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > I am trying to get a signature block script working in Evo2.0.1 under
> > SuSE9.2 using Bash 3.00.1(1) (Evolution Menu > Tools > Settings:
> > Evolution Settings window, Composer Preferences, Signatures tab, Add
> > script button).
> >
> > What I am seeing is that when I apply the command "printf" in the script
> > it doesn't pass the newline (\n) or linefeed (\f) options back to the
> > signature block of Evo. Using the "echo" command shows the same traits.
> >
> > for example:
> > printf "Hello \n\n World"
> >
> > shows... 
> >     Hello World 
> > in the sig block not...
> >     Hello
> >
> >     World
> >
> > Thanks for any help you can give.
>
> Script signatures are evaluated as HTML always, even if you are
> composing text/plain mails.
>
> That means, you need to insert "<br>" instead of "\n".
>
> ...guenther