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From: eo@ansa.co.UK (Ed Oskiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: repl components and filter files: a clarification
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Date: 8 Apr 91 16:46:50 GMT
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One of our users was unable to write a filter file to include the body of the
message being repl'd to AND also to have their signature at the bottom of the
message. As usual the answer is blindingly obvious once you've seen it but is
not necessarily obvious before that (certainly not to beginners).

The problem being that repl uses the repl components file to construct the
header of the message and the filter is then used to construct the remainder.
The obvious first step is to type your signature after the filter, this leads
to an error message and some head scratching. However, if you prefix each line
of the signature with a colon then all is well. Thus to augment section 6.7.5
of The Book, my copy of replfilt might contain

body:component="> ",compwidth=0
:
:Cheers,
:
:Ed Oskiewicz
:
:email: eo@ansa.co.uk (mcsun!ukc!ansa!eo)       ANSA,

etc. As I said, obvious once you've seen it. Is this worth explaining in the
repl man page?

Cheers,

Ed Oskiewicz

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