Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Changing AMS headers and more. Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 90 17:31:25 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 34 You can probably get the effect you desire in the headers only by either A) changing the code or B) doing some init file hacking. In the latter scenario, which is REALLY ugly, what you'd do would be to replace things like the "Reply to Sender" menu & keystrokes with compound commands that do the normal action and then add the header you want. I don't have an example of exactly what you want, but the following init file line sets up a custom menu that sets up a reply to the sender, fills in the body, and then actually sends off the mail and deletes the message you were reading. You might use at as a sort of perverse inspiration for doing what you want to do... # addmenu messages-compound-operation "Custom~99,On The List~11" messages messages inherit "messages-reply-to-sender; messages-sendmessage-compound sendmessage-insert-file /afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr2/nsb/.onthelisttext; messages-sendmessage-compound sendmessage-excerpt-body; messages-sendmessage-compound sendmessage-send-message; messages-delete-current" A third way to extend the system that wouldn't have to use this awful syntax would be to use Ness; I'm not sure how exactly, but I'm pretty sure it could be done. (Actually, it might be a lot easier with Ness, but I'm not a Ness expert.) As far as eatmail goes: What it does is convert mbox format files to separate files in a directory (~/Mailbox by default) for processing by AMS. So I doubt that it's what you want. For converting MH mail to AMS, I think you have the right idea -- CUI reconstruct is the way to go. The reconstruction might work better if you first type "create folder-name" to create the folder index and then "reconstruct folder-name" to fill it in properly. As for printscribe & console, well, I can't help much on those...