Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!attdso!tim
From: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Suggestion for next Elm release
Keywords: finger elm
Message-ID: <1989Sep22.175603.17806@attdso.att.com>
Date: 22 Sep 89 17:56:03 GMT
References: <291@van-bc.UUCP> <3832@itivax.iti.org> <292@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde)
Organization: AT&T DSO-HQ, Morristown, NJ
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In article <292@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>jtc@tessera.wimsey.bc.ca made a different suggestion. How about a different
>way to allow another program to be run using the sender of the the current
>message as the arguement. 

Sounds good, but I would rather have a more general tool.  How about whenever
a !<command> is executed, the first argument passed to <command> is the
current message number.  That way, readmsg can be used by <command> to
access the message itself and get anything you want out of it: sender,
subject, path, or anything else in the header.

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