PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition
PMDF-USR-VMS-6.0

1.1.6 Adding a signature to outgoing messages

With PMDF you can automatically add one or more signature lines to messages which you send.⁴ These lines can be used to "sign" messages; in them you can provide addressing information, telephone and FAX numbers, pithy favorite sayings, disclaimers, and so on.

To add only a single signature line, line, define the logical

$ DEFINE PMDF_SIGNATURE "line"

For instance, the definition

$ DEFINE PMDF_SIGNATURE "Disclaimer: Don't blame me!"

will cause the signature line Disclaimer: Don't blame me! to be appended to the end of each message you send with PMDF. This logical name definition should also be added to your LOGIN.COM command procedure.

To include more than one signature line, create a text file containing the desired lines and then define the PMDF_SIGNATURE logical as follows:

$ DEFINE PMDF_SIGNATURE "@signature-file"

Here, signature-file is the name of the file containing the signature lines. Be sure to use a complete file specification. For example, suppose that the signature lines are stored in the file PMDF_SIGNATURE.TXT which you keep in your login directory. Then the correct logical definition would be

$ DEFINE PMDF_SIGNATURE "@SYS$LOGIN:PMDF_SIGNATURE.TXT"

Again, you should also add this definition to your login procedure.

Note:
Signature lines are not attached to messages sent using SEND/FOREIGN. In addition, signature lines cannot be attached to messages sent by VMS MAIL that do not pass through PMDF. If a message is sent to a mixture of PMDF addresses and non-PMDF addresses, only the copies sent via PMDF will have signature information attached.

Note

⁴ The facility described here only works when PMDF is running on the computer from which you send your mail messages. It will not work, for instance, when you send messages from a remote DECnet node as described in Section 1.1.3 .

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1.1.6 Adding a signature to outgoing messages

Note

4 The facility described here only works when PMDF is running on the computer from which you send your mail messages. It will not work, for instance, when you send messages from a remote DECnet node as described in Section 1.1.3 .

PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition
PMDF-USR-VMS-6.0

⁴ The facility described here only works when PMDF is running on the computer from which you send your mail messages. It will not work, for instance, when you send messages from a remote DECnet node as described in Section 1.1.3 .