[TriLUG] E-mail signature script

[Randy Barlow]

I have a script that autogenerates my signature every day using the
output from the famous fortune program.  This part seems to work
properly.  But when I used the Evolution mail client, it likes to strip
off the endline characters and I have to go and fix it every time I send
an e-mail.  Evolution doesn't seem to have the ability to use a text
file as your signature - it wants you to either type you signature into
its own editor manually, or have it call a script the output of which
will be used as the signature.  My script writes a file, so I just wrote
another script that cat's the file and I have Evolution calling that
script - this is the point at which the endline characters get stripped.
If I call my script from the shell, the endline characters seem to be
there, so it this a bug with Evolution or what?  Obviously, I could just
use a different mail client, but I like to fix problems rather than run
from them ;)  Example messed up signature below:

Randy Barlow http://www.electronsweatshop.com Jesuit priests are DATING
CAREER DIPLOMATS!!