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From: pinard%icule.UUCP@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (Francois Pinard)
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Subject: Auto-folding a reply from a Babyl file
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Date: 6 Apr 91 14:47:18 GMT
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This is a request for code, or a suggestion for a new facility in the
Emacs rmail/mail reply processing.

I have several Babyl files, from which I can reply.  Now, my setup is
such than I have a Bcc: to myself from all outbound messages, this of
course includes replies.  When I receive in the incoming mail the
message which is in fact the Bcc: of a reply, I often add this message
at the end of the Babyl file from which the reply has been issued.

I wonder if there is an easy way to automate this further.  Here is a
starting idea.  When replying from a Babyl file which is not the main
RMAIL file, some kind of `Auto-Babyl: BABYL-FILE-PATH' line could be
generated in the template header by the reply processor.  I could then
edit the Auto-Babyl: line or simply remove it if I do not feel like
automatically saving the reply.  Let's presume I keep it.  When the
reply, once completed, is being sent, sendmail.el could recognize the
Auto-Babyl: line, then process it by saving the adequately formatted
reply in the specified BABYL-FILE-PATH, then remove the Auto-Babyl:
line before letting the message leave.

Still using Babyl files, if someone sees a better way to do this,
please tell me.

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Franc,ois Pinard          ``Vivement GNU!''         pinard@iro.umontreal.ca
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