163831 - can't attach signature from pipe (fifo)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 62993

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Jonas Stricker]

hi!
like many people do, I use to attach a signature to my emails containing a
random generated fortune. on my machine (Linux 2.4.18-4GB i686, mozilla 1.1beta)
i created a little perl-script which re-fills a fifo-pipe, everytime the content
was read. the pipe is called ".signature" and I told the mozilla mailer to use
it as signature file. when I click on "compose", the mailer freezes as soon as
it tries to read from the pipe. that's astonishing to me, because all other
applications have no problems with reading from pipes. and as far as I know
fifo-pipes can be handled like "normal" files under *nix anytime.
perhaps is there any suggestion you can give me or already a work-around? also I
am very curious, why mozilla sees any difference between a pipe or a "regular" file.

kindest regards and congrats for a nice piece of software!
(excuse my broken english...)

jonas.---

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

see also http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73567#c16 (comment 16, 17
and 18)

Random signatures (chosen from a list of files) is in bug 162583

Most current work for signatures is in bug 37644, which would save signatures in
the profile-directory (and creade/edit/delete them in the mailviewer directly).

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62993 ***

Comment 3

[Vedran Miletic]

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