Adding a .signature

Many times people will want an interesting quote or other information to appear at the bottom of all of their outgoing mail messages. This is an automatic function of posting articles to usenet news, but requires a little fiddling to work for electronic mail.

How you define and activate this function depends on the mail program you're using. Also be aware that most newsgroup software will truncate the contents of a .signature file if it exceeds four lines of text.

Pine:

create the file '.signature', containing the signature information, and 
when you send mail from pine it will automatically be appended to each
message.

Dmail:

create the file '.dmailsig', containing the signature information, and 
when you send mail it will automatically be appended to each message.

UNIX Mail:

create a file of any name containing the signature information, and 
include it in the composition of each mail message by issuing

~r filename

at the point at which you want the information to appear.

Alternate method for mail:

add the following line to your .mailrc file

	set Sign=This is the text I want to appear in my mail

then use the command

	~a

at the point at which you want the information to appear while composing
your mail message.

For mh, rmail, and other emacs-based mailers:

create a file with the text you want, and include it at the appropriate 
point with

	escape-x insert-file filename

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