COOL MAIL SIGS
From: Andrew
Mathews and Myles Green
Some people use more than one machine to send and receive mail. Knowing
what machine was used can be useful sometimes. The signature at the end
of this message uses the method listed below.
To create a signature to identify the machine, date, and time sent use
the following to create it:
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#!/bin/bash
echo "(your name here)" > /home/(name)/.signature
echo "-----------------" >> /home/(name)/.signature
echo "$HOSTNAME `date '+%A %b %d %Y %X %Z'`" >> /home/(name)/.signature
echo "-----------------" >> /home/(name)/.signature
/usr/games/fortune -s >> /home/(name)/.signature
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(Note the -s flag limits fortune to use the "short" fortunes of less
than 160 characters, as long signatures are considered annoying.)
Save this as something such as /usr/bin/siggen, make it executable using
chmod +x /usr/bin/siggen, and add it to your crontab (crontab -e) to run it such as:
5 * * * * /usr/bin/siggen
The fortune program used to generate the quips and quotes at the end is
available at http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=fortune
There are many, and you can combine several by making sure the files
reside in the same directory such as /usr/share/games/fortunes/ or
wherever the primary fortune-mod installs it's own .dat files.
The end result:
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andy.nmcourts.com Friday Jun 07 2002 07:57:00 MDT
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Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
-- R. Geis
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