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From: Stephen Powell <stephen_powell@optusnet.com.au>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New Package: email-2.3.0-2
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 19:17:18 +1000
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"Ross Smith II" <cygwinspam@netebb.com> writes:

> The following package has recently been added to the Cygwin distribution:
>
> email-2.3.0-2:


Summary:

The path to the fortune program is "/usr/bin/fortune", email thinks it
is "/usr/games/fortune".


Detail:

I put "%f" in "/etc/email/email.sig" to get a quote from fortune in my
signature, email sends the mail but without the signature line.


Example:

$ echo "Is this thing on?" | email -f me@here -s "Testing 1,2,3" you@there
/usr/games/fortune: not found
Sending DATA...                    
E-Mail Sent 

$ which fortune
/usr/bin/fortune


Request:

Is it possible to run fortune as "/usr/bin/fortune -s"?  The "-s"
generates a short quote which I think is better in an email signature.
PS I haven't looked at the source.


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