AddSigSWT on Solaris 8 / Gnome
Care about your .sig file, even if it annoys somebody out there :-)
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Software to store, retrieve and list signatures / quotes which can be inserted at the end of email messages and usenet postings. The signatures are stored in a XML file, and there is a small GUI to add signatures. The software might be applicable for "quote-of-the-day" applications, too. One could greet the users on login with a random signature, hint or whatever.
Tiny programs, written in Java and tested with Windows and Solaris. Should work on Macs and that Linux thing, too. It might be not the right software for non-programmers - there is no installer, and you need to set some paths in the provided startup scripts.
This software is in the public domain, but leave my name out if you re-distribute it. Read the license files of the required libraries and my small note below.
Those are small no-fuss-programs, and each one has exactly one task:
AddSigSWT on Solaris 8 / Gnome
AddSigSWT on Windows NT
RandomWriter on Windows NT
Signatures File in Firebird (now Firefox) browser on Solaris 8 / Gnome. Works
with Mozilla and new versions of Internet Explorer, too.
See the license files of the required software.
It worked for me with Sun's Java 1.4.2 on Windows NT 4 and Sun Solaris 8 / Gnome. You might need a Java 2 Runtime Environment, Version 1.4.2. I did not work on Windows 2000 with 1.4.1.
The programs hand all the real work over to the following libraries:
Take a look at the provided shell scripts to get it. You will have to modify them to include the required libraries. See your mail client's documentation to find out how to attach a signature file. The command line programs show usage hints on invocation, and there is a sample sigs.xml.
If you want to have pre- and postambles in the generated signatures, enter
them in the sigs.xml file. Please note that it is considered good style to set
a separation marker before the signature. When the marker is there, good email
clients can strip the signature when your correspondent replies to your message.
Some programs insert the markers, others don't. Please note that the marker
should be "-- [return]" (with a space before the newline).
Note that, especially on the usenet, signatures should not be longer than four lines x 72 characters.
See signatures.dtd in the download archives for the data file format.
Note about the sources:
I got some mails about this program now. Note that this is not a demo thing,
an elegant solution or a beautiful piece of engineering. It is merely an aggregation
of independent hacks lying around on my disk. The reason I did it was that I
was more and more annoyed of the data file format of my old C-program that did
basically the same task. Then people started to ask for it, so it is here.
And remember, this is public domain software.