Dynamic Signatures

[John Kloian III]

This is not only possible I've been using it for over a year!  Although i
cannot take credit for it, someone on this list wrote me a nifty python
script to do it.  I will not dump that person into the fire and tell you
his/her name, but if they want to identify themselves they can.

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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Julian M Catchen wrote:

>Ok, I have a question that will either be answered really easily, or not
>answered at all:
>
>Is there a way to have your email signature file generated dynamically?
>What I mean by that is not simply a program that regenerates it every so
>many minutes as a cron job, but a mechanism that would regenerate it
>whenever the file is opened for reading.  So, kind of like the /proc
>filesystem where files appear to be real, they can be read or written to,
>but in reality they are functions that are executing whenever the proc file
>is opened for reading or writing.
>
>If this is possible, then all standard mail programs could use this dynamic
>file without changes.
>
>So, any takers (or am I totally off with this)?
>
>Thanks,
>
>julian
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