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From: thakur@ZERKALO.HARVARD.EDU ("Manavendra K. Thakur")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: SUMMARY: Three questions about xmh
Message-ID: <9008290159.AA11409@zerkalo.harvard.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 01:59:37 GMT
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I originally asked:

> 1) How can I save a message into a file of my own choosing?
>    Is there any way to do this from within xmh?

The answer seems to be "NO".  This is a real sore point for some of
our users.  Urgh.  The best workaround seems to be to use cp on the
actual mail file, or type "show > filename" from the command line.

> 2) How can I insert the contents of a file into a message I'm
>    composing?  (I.e., does xmh have the equivalent of the ~r command
>    in /usr/ucb/mail?)

The answer is to press Meta-i in the draft window.  This will pop up a
dialog box where you can type in the name of the file you wish to include.

> 3) How can I configure xmh to automatically save a copy of all
>    outgoing mail (i.e, all mail that I send to someone else) into a
>    folder?

The easiest way seems to be to create a file called "components" in
your MH mail directory (usually $HOME/Mail) which has the line "Fcc:
folder-name" in it.  Other ways to do this include configuring your
$HOME/.mh_profile file so that the -fcc folder-name is automatically
passed as an argument to comp and repl (and possibly forw).

Many thanks to those who replied:

kittu%shakti.wpd.sgi.com@SGI.COM (Krishna Swaroop Kolluri)
karl@cgdisis.cgd.ucar.edu
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
scl@sasha.acc.Virginia.EDU (Steve Losen)
Rainer Klute <klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
corbet@stout.atd.ucar.EDU (Jonathan Corbet)
coleman@sundae8.dab.ge.com (Richard Coleman)

Let's hope the X11R5 xmh has the ability to ssave messages into
arbitrary files!

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