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Evolution signature without dashes

Saturday, January 3, 2009 ★ 14:37 ★ Category Gnome

Most mail messages I send end with my name. It’s quite tiresome to type it all over again (yes, I’m lazy), so let’s try to do something about it.

Note: make sure you read this whole post if you use Evolution 2.30.x (or newer)!

First try: force Evolution to somehow use a template with my name already typed in when composing a message. I haven’t found out how to do that, and I gave up looking for it quickly when I realized this would only work for new messages, but not for replies.

Next try: signatures. However, it seems Evolution does not allow me to not include the -- mail signature separator in my signatures. I found a work-around though: use a signature script instead of a piece of text, since for some reason no -- is included in that case. The script itself is really simple (make sure you make it executable):

#!/bin/sh
echo ''
echo '— Wouter'

Hope this helps others as well!

Update: Johnny Jacob (Novell) pointed out that Evolution 2.24.x supports message templates, available under plugins. Thanks for letting me know!

Another update: Since Evolution 2.30.x, this work-around is no longer required… signature dashes are included by default, but they can be disabled by setting the GConf key /apps/evolution/mail/composer/no_signature_delim key to false using gconf-editor.