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. -- /****************************************************************************/ / / / John Kloian III Chief Technology Officer / / OpNIX, Inc. http://opnix.com / / / / .Innovating Internet Intelligence. / / / /****************************************************************************/ 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 > >