In article <844r4gvyfc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>, Kai Großjohann wrote: > Peter Wu writes: > >> message-signature's value is >> (lambda nil >> (shell-command-to-string "$HOME/.signature")) > > That looks like a strange value. It tries to call $HOME/.signature as > a program and then uses the output of that program. I guess that > $HOME/.signature is not a program on your system. > > How about this: > > (setq message-signature nil > message-signature-file "~/.signature") > > This also happens to be the default. Thanks. This cures the problem. :) -- Peter Wu Powered by Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]