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From: jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek)
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Subject: Re: forwarding in (X)mh -- reusing subject of original msg
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Date: 4 Feb 91 00:15:00 GMT
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In message <9102022126.AA04152@MURRAY.CS.NYU.EDU>, Konstantin Laufer wrote:
> Could somebody suggest what to put in the file forwcomps in order to reuse
> automatically the subject of the original message?  I was thinking of using
> the operations typically used in the file replcomps. ... It appears that forw
> doesn't use forwcomps the same way as repl uses replcomps.

It's true that "forw" just copies the forwcomps file into the draft
message... it doesn't pay attention to mh-format strings that way that
"repl" does.  You can use "forw -format" or "forw -filter file" to change
the body (the message you're forwarding), but that won't change the header
of the forwarded message.

You can do it with "repl", though.  First, make a file named myforwcomps
(or any name) with these five lines (don't indent them):

	To: 
	Cc:
	%<{subject}Subject: %{subject}\n%>\
	Reply-To: laufer@cs.nyu.edu
	--------

Next, make a file named myforwfilt with these ten lines (not indented):

	; filter file for "myforw" version of "repl"
	:
	:----- Forwarded Message
	:
	extras:nocomponent
	:
	body:nocomponent
	:
	:----- End of Forwarded Message
	:

Then, put this line in your .mh_profile:

	myforw: -forw myforwcomps -filter myforwfilt

And in your bin directory, made a symbolic link to "repl" named "myforw".
If you use the C-shell, you should re-set the shell's hash table too:

	% ln -s /usr/local/mh/repl myforw
	% rehash

To forward a message, type the command:
	
	% myforw

It's not perfect -- for instance, it can only forward one message at a time
while the real "forw" can forward a lot of messages -- but it works.
(BTW, Chapter 9 of the Nutshell MH & xmh book has lots of examples like this.)

--Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com