Creating and installing a Xface for your mail.

     1/ Create a face in the form of a 48x48 X bitmap.
        NOTE: this should be an actual face and NOT just a logo.

     2/ use the script
           http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/icons/support/scripts/xbm2face
        to convert this into a compressed face file. This script assumes that
        the pbmplus filters the "compface" executable is on your path.  The
        program will complain if this is not the case.

     4/ Save the output as a ".face" file in your home directory.
        XMail or ExMH (and many other mail client programs), will now
        automatically add a face to any mail it sends.

        WARNING: Do not leave any blank lines in the .face file and all lines
        MUST start with either a SPACE or TAB. This stipulation is for
        sendmail to denote a line continuation in mail headers. All white
        space is ignored by the face decoding routines, so you can break or
        join lines anywhere as long as the above holds true.

     5/ For mail clients that do not automatically add the mail face..

        Prepend the string "X-Face: " to the contents of ".face" and add it to
        the headers of outgoing mail.  I myself use a special outgoing mail
        filter to add the face and random (or selected) signitures to all my
        outgoing mail.

Anthony Thyssen      <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>    13 March 1996