Eben King wrote:
>>I've been pondering whether to do something like this myself, but
>>haven't actually decided to do it yet. I think part of it is the simple
>>fact that I'm feeling too lazy to figure out how to make it work with
>>Thunderbird's signature-applying feature which, if I'm unlucky, might
>>turn out to be a challenge.
>
>
> Maybe it reads (or can be convinced to read) ~/.signature just like
> everybody else.
>
> Feel free to modify mine as needed.
thanks
>
>
>>I guess I need to look into how it actually calls up the text from a
>>signature file.
>
>
> My thing was, if various apps read ~/.signature when they need it, that'll
> change its access time, so I can just compare that to what it was the last
> time I checked. If they're different, write a new .signature . If they
> read it once and then cache the result, I'm out of luck. That hasn't
> happened yet for Linux apps.
>
Thunderbird, as far as I'm aware, just inserts text found in a
pre-specified file as a signature block, with no support for multiple
signature files. If Thunderbird will call a script and insert its
output, I'm golden. If it would just insert the code from the script,
though, I'd have to do some more-serious monkeying around with how to
run scripts behind the scenes. From what you're saying here, and what
it says on that page to which you directed me, it looks like you've
already done the heavy lifting for me and I won't have to reinvent the
wheel.
Again, thanks.
-- Chad
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