RE: tlug: Sendmail Signatures

["Stephen Carter" <sncarter@example.com>]

I wonder if Daniel Kenny is trying to set up so that regardless of what a
person puts in their own .signature file, that all mail going out from their
server puts on a signature as well--one of those disclamer or company ident
sort of signatures?

How would a person go about doing that on the server?

Steve Carter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug@example.com [mailto:owner-tlug@example.com]On Behalf Of
> Stephen J. Turnbull
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 11:28 AM
> To: tlug@example.com
> Subject: Re: tlug: Sendmail Signatures
>
>
> >>>>> "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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