Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)

[Mike Lake <Mike.Lake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:45:26PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:15:59PM +1000, Michael Lake (mikel@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Sometime ago someone posted (Jeff?) a script which you can set to run in
> > muttrc that runs fortune and sets the output into your sig. From what I
> > remember it wrote a sig to tmp and then used that. Have searched slug
> > archives for that with keywords mutt, quote, sig but can't find it. Can't
> > search woa at present or indeed slug again at moment as web is down,  the 
> > UTS can't seem to resolve any sites. The rain? 
> 
> here's another solution:
> make a ".signature" file like this:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> %QUOTE%
> put whatever you like here what needs to be STATIC.
> ------------------------------------------------------------
ect...

> and from then one you signature will change automaperly!

Thanks jobst.
I ended up working it out myself just then. Here is how I did it.

In .muttrc I have:
folder-hook slug set signature="/home/mikel/bin/fortune.sig|"

the script fortune.sig is:

        #!/bin/bash
        # Create a short fortune to go before my email sig
        echo `fortune -s`
        echo 
        cat ~/.signature

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