Re: [LUG] rant about mail clients

[Jon Lawrence <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another thing that evolution doesn't support is inline GPG signatures.
It is registered as a bug but the developers say it may never be fixed -
damn them.

Jon

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 10:18, James Keasley wrote:
> Why is it that a nice mail client comes along, but in their infinite
> wisdom the developers see fit to break something that every other mail 
> client does?
> 
> To whit, Evolution 1.4, while being very nice, with an easy to use gui
> and lots of powerful features doesn't support the eons old standard
> sigfile of .signature.
> 
> Not do you have to enter your static sig into an in client editor, or
> import it to that editor or, you can use a script to get a sigmonster,
> but that script has to spit its output straight into the mail, rather
> than as the one I wrote does, update a static file in the home dir.
> 
> On top of that, to get a script to format corrrectly in evolution
> you have to use html tags, although it strips these out before it 
> sends the email.
> 
> Gah, that threw me a bit, I had to rewrite the sigmonster script
> especially for use in evolution, as everything else I use for email
> and news will get the sig from a file.
> 
> On a side note this is also to see if I can send mail to the list using
> mutt.


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