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Re: customizing e-mail



On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 09:18:14AM +0200, El-al, Netta wrote:

> i want to know how, and using which e-mail programs, do people get the
> following:
> 
> 1. customized reply beginnings like gaal's "Hello there, <name>.
> <date and time>, you wrote:", and i forgot who's "Quoth <name>:"
> 
> 2. a different quote at the end of every e-mail. (or at least a different
> one every day)

Both are easily possible with mutt (via setting the attribution and
signature variables; the latter can end with a pipe to signify a
program to run, which can be a signature rendomizer). I think they're
possible with pine too, but if you aren't using either of them now,
try mutt first. :-)


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