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Re: mh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 13 18:33:47 1994
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 18:33:28 -0400
To: sorokin@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> not exactlya bug, but it's a fairly user-visible change that mail now
> includes the user's full name (i don't know where it gets it from, but
> there it is...) and i personally don't like it.
Ok, here's the deal: MH is now supposed to generate your signature by
reading the SIGNATURE environment variable
then, if that is not set,
read the signature field of your .mh-profile,
then, if that is not set,
use the gecos field of your password entry.
Only if none of these are set to you get a null signature.
There are two problems with this:
1. It doesn't read the field out of your password entry on
the Sun correctly. This is a bug, but it means that if you
send mail on Suns, you aren't virtually forced into having
a signature.
2. There is no sane way of specifying a null signature. You
can't do it in your .mh-profile no matter what hacks you
try, as near as I can tell. This is definitely not a feature.
There is an annoying way of specifying a null signature. You can
setenv SIGNATURE " "
Craig
