Hello all,
For a long time, I wanted to change the quote character '>', with
something else. I waited for the support to come, but now I decided to
come up with a script that would do this for me.
I've attached a small script that changes the quote character to '|--'
if its a new message. If the message is a reply, then this script
changes the quote character to the first eight characters of the
sender's name (picked from the citation :)
Setup:
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This is what I've done for one of the accounts. I've set the "Server
Type" in "Sending Options", to "Sendmail". I then
(sym)linked /usr/sbin/sendmail to point to this script.
Assumptions:
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* mess822 package [1] is installed. A couple of (careful) grep
statements should take care of this.
* qmail is installed. Changing the 'qmail-inject' line should
solve the problem.
:)
Things to do:
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I'm still learning shell scripting. Need to improve on the following
things:
* I'm assuming that any first character that is '>' should be
replaced. This is not a 'cool' solution. You could have that
symbol in the first column in your message (or reply) or
attachment (???) too.
* I'm using DJBs mess822 package [1] to get the "From:" address. I
don't know how to grep only the headers of the email.
* I need to find a better way to find the name from the citation.
Please comment on this script and help me in fixing the above. :)
Hope this script proves to be helpful for someone else too. :)
Srinidhi.
[1] http://cr.yp.to/mess822.html
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