[Alpine-info] more than one signiture?

[Karen Lewellen]

Wow,  let me see if I follow.
ideally it need not be automated, just a way for me to choose when 
composing.
Need to check if the r method is set up via the alpine compile dreamhost 
provides  actually works.
Still, I can say leave my current signature for one, and create a row for 
another, simply using it instead for specific communications?
  Is that correct?
Kare



On Thu, 19 Oct 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:


> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023, Karen Lewellen wrote:

>

>>  However, for professional reasons, I wish to create more than one, with

>>  alpine asking me to choose which I wish to use, or if I want to sign at

>>  all.

>

> It is possible to do that in many ways (maybe not fully automated).

>

> - one is to create one or more Roles. Each role can have its own

>   signature. A role can be invoked explicitly when composing, or a

>   role can be triggered automatically by a pattern like the address

>   of a sender (for instance I have a role as moderator of as particular

>   mailing list)

>

>   M S R R enters the role definition. For instance the above moderator

>   role has

>

> To pattern        = list address

> Set Signature     = ~/.sig/moderator.signatur

>

> - another silly way is to change the signature file outside of alpine

>   BTW my .pinerc contains the following set up for signatures (do M S C,

>   scan each keyowrd and look at the individual kwd help ... one learns

>   a lot from that !)

>

> Signature File                      = .signature

>  [X]  Enable Sigdashes

>  [X]  Signature at Bottom

>  [X]  Strip From Sigdashes on Reply

> Signature Foreground Color          = 174,174,174

> Signature Background Color          = transparent

>

>   So my signature(s) is/are in external file(s). The default one is in

>   ~/.signature

>

>   Every so an often I re-point this file to one of the many signatures

>   in my ~/.sig directory

>

> - it would be possible by a script or crontab to change the signature

>   file randomly or any other way (do you want a Sunday signature

>   different from weekday one ?). Perhaps I tried something like that

>   long ago but abandoned

>

> - an extension of that could be to define alternate .pinerc with

>   a different signature each, and have shell aliases to invoke

>   alpine with alternate .pinerc on the command string

>

> - finally the simplest way to load manually one of the many signatures

>   is simply the following. Which I use often.

>

>   At any time before you send, you scan your messages for the sigdashes

>   (in my case the signature is automatically inserted at bottom after

>   the sigdashes), delete what follows the sigdashes (do not delete

>   the blank space on the sigdashes line), then press control-r and

>   give the path of the alternate signature (just done it with

>   .sig/schiller.signatur, one of many, serious or funny, in English

>   or Italian or other :-)

>

>   or you can just delete sigdashes and all what follows, I also do

>   that sometimes.

>

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