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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: How to make selective use of prefix string
Message-ID: <1990Dec04.190835.5225@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 4 Dec 90 19:08:35 GMT
References: <33946@netnews.upenn.edu>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <33946@netnews.upenn.edu> st@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Stephen Thompson) writes:

>When I forward mail, it's usually digests and similar items which I don't want
>to use my prefix string (">") with.  Conversely, when I reply to mail, I
>want to prefix the mail to which I reply.  As far as I can figure, elm uses
>one string ("prefix" in elmrc) for both purposes.

You might want to use b)ounce instead of f)orward to resend that type of
message leaving it completely unchanged.  If your mail transport allows
you to lie about the sender, it will appear to be from the original
sender as well.

>What is the best way to supress the prefix or set it to null when forwarding,
>yet use it or set it to non-null when replying?

If you are set up to automatically invoke an editor you could also use
its search and replace to quickly remove them.  In vi ":%s/^> //" would
do it.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us