Re: tlug: Sendmail Signatures

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:

    jb> Daniel Kenny (kennyd@example.com) wrote:

    >> I just have a simple question regarding sendmail - is it
    >> possible to set up signature files in the user's home directory
    >> (similar to a .forward file type configuration) to append a
    >> standard signature to email?

    jb> .signature is the standard file name (my signature below comes
    jb> from there).  I don't know if there's a way to make sendmail
    jb> look for them and append them or not

No.  Sendmail cannot possibly do this correctly in a MIME world.  It's 
not an overhead issue, it's a question of corrupting the mail.

This is a mail client's job, as Jonathan said.  Even Berkeley mail can 
do this (albeit not automagically without special treatment in
.mailrc).  All of the popular MUAs for Linux (even Emacs/RMail ;-) can 
do this.  I assume essentially all Windoze and Mac clients, too.

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