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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Mush in rn or nn
Message-ID: <14065@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 90 02:13:27 GMT
References: <8863@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <1990Nov13.212612.21797@jafus.mi.org> <2708@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <2708@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> rock@warp.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill Petro) writes:
} eddy@jafus.mi.org (Eddy J. Gurney) writes:
} 
} >In article <8863@darkstar.ucsc.edu> hermit@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward) writes:
} >>
} >>When using rn to read news, I would like to be able to shell out to mush
} >>to send mail and to post news.

To get mush to post news, play around with

	set sendmail = "inews -h"

plus some my_hdr commands to create the appropriate Newsgroups: header
and so on.  The Rnmush script Bill was nice enough to repost is a place
to start looking for how to do this.  Note that this won't work on all
news systems, and that getting mush to post is only a small step toward
getting it to work for followups.

To use the Rnmush script for sending replies, set the environment variable
MAILPOSTER to "Rnmush -h".  Bill neglected to mention that detail.

} Or more generically, I use nn, and would like to use mush as my mailer,
} but mush expects an argument.
} 
} I have tried in nn:
[... various things that didn't work...] 
} Any ideas?

Well, I don't use or even have access to nn, but based on what your
attempts look like, you might try

set mailer "/home/speedway/rock/bin/mush -send -draft -"

(the double quotes may not be necessary).  Leave mailer-pipe-input alone,
the "-draft -" means to expect a complete message with headers on stdin.
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