Dynamic Signatures

[Julian M Catchen]

There is no non-GUI mode for Balsa.  However, it can read standard mbox, mH
and maildir type mail files so it is very easy to use mutt in text mode
when you need it and Balsa as a GUI.  In fact, balsa still uses a large
portion of the Mutt backend to do its mailing (like smtp).

Unfortunately, Balsa doesn't have the option to run a program as a sig, and
it breaks FIFOs in the way I described earlier.  Looks like its time for a
patch :) .

julian


On Thu, 10 May 2001 00:22:10 der.hans wrote:
> Am 09. May, 2001 schwäzte Julian M Catchen so:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4
> 
> I figured balsa would be able to read from a pipe as pine does. Don't see
> that listed as a feature and don't see it in the FAQ, so you'll probably
> need to resort to a name fifo as Nick suggested.
> 
> BTW, while rummaging through the FAQ they mentioned something about being
> in
> the GUI. Does that mean there's a way to not be in the GUI with balsa?
> Specifically, is there a text-only mode?
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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