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Random Sigs for Eudora
Authored by: bluehz on May 24, '02 12:22:48PM

Thx for the great tip! I whipped this up for use in my chosen e-mail client.

Some assumption (for sake of this tip - they can be changed as desired):
* Your Eudora mail folder is located in your Documents folder
* You have Fink installed, more specifically you have "fortune" installed in /sw/bin/
* The fortune text and data files are located in /sw/share/fortunes/
* You have previously created a text file called eurandom and generated the .dat file from that text file with strfile and saved the dat file - eurandom.dat in /sw/share/fortunes/

To accomplish random sigs using Eudora and a random sig data file /sw/share/fortunes/eurorandom.dat:

1. Open ~/Documents/Eudora Folder/Signature Folder
2. Select one of the Signature files inside the Signature Folder and duplicate it. Rename the copy to Random
3. Create a Cron job in your crontab with this line
* * * * */sw/bin/fortune eurandom > ~/documents/Eudora\ Folder/Signature\ Folder/Random

Within Eudora - choose Random as the signature file for a msg, this will append the current Random sig onto the current message. If you decide you want to make Random the default sig for ALL your outgoing mail - simply change the crontab entry to:

* * * * * /sw/bin/fortune eurandom > ~/documents/Eudora\ Folder/Signature\ Folder/Default

Note - the above crontab setting will change the random sig every one min. CPU usage is minimal and casues no ill-effects, but if you prefer you can alter the crontab entry to every 10 mins, 1 hour, etc - whatever your preference is.



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Random Sigs for Eudora
Authored by: tochoa on May 24, '02 06:31:14PM

That's a really nice cron tip, thanks!

Tony O



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