elmtag - add taglines to your e-mails

This is a PERL script that I wrote back in 1999. Although it is available on CPAN and its mirrors, I wanted to have it also here as a backup.

elmtag [ -r ] (randomly-select-a-tagline)

*Elmtag * is an interactive screen-oriented tagline includer for your e-mails.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. And also please DO NOT REMOVE my name, and give me a CREDIT when you use whole or a part of this program in an other program.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

There is only two step to make Elmtag.pl ready to work.

Open elmtag.pl with a text editor and update the fallowing file names.

Location of your tagline database

$tag_file = '/home/cinar/personel/documents/tags';

Your prefered editor

$your_editor = 'vi';

Do you prefere an alphabeticaly ordered list?

$alphabetical = 1; (1=on, 0=off)

centeralize taglines when appending to e-mails?

$centertags = 1; (1=on, 0=off)

Elmtag.pl's configuration are done. Now configure your e-mail program by fallowing these steps:

• Start ELM
• Go to Options menu by pressing 'o'
• press 'E' to change your default editor
• write elmtag.pl (include fullpath if necessaire)
• press '>' to save your settings

Try to send an e-mail, if you can see the ELMTAG's menu, it's working!

• Start PINE
• press 'S' for setup
• press 'C' for config
• go to editor= (it's close to the bottom of list)
• write elmtag.pl (include fullpath if necessaire)
• press 'e' to exit
• press 'y' and save the settings.

Try to send an e-mail, if you can see the ELMTAG's menu, it's working!

When you want to send an e-mail, your mailer will start Elmtag program, and you will see an Elm similar user interface which shows the taglines you have in your database.

The definition of keys are:

 KEY(S)        MISSION                    DESCRIPTION
S,s,ENTER Select a tag line   will select the hightlighted tagline
                              to append it to the end of your e-mail.

R,r       Random tagline      randomly select a tagline for you

T,t       Tag multiple tags   you can tag/untag multiple taglines to
                               append to your e-mail.

U,u       Untag all           untag all taglines you selected

/         Search pattern      search a keywork in tagline database

Q,q       Quit                to quit Elmtag, to do not add a tagline
                               at this time to your e-mail.

Latest version can be downloaded from:

• ftp://hun.ece.drexel.edu/pub/cinar/elmtag
• ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/A/AO/AOCINAR/elmtag
• ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/mail/misc/elmtag

Ali Onur Cinar

Copyright 1998 by Ali Onur Cinar