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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elmheaders question (Another one)
Message-ID: <1991Apr28.221614.446@DSI.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 91 22:16:14 GMT
References: <1991Apr14.112755.26471@engin.umich.edu> <1991Apr15.160308.250@napc.uucp> <1991Apr25.150333.14057@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> <1991Apr28.163720.7923@corpane.uucp>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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herman@corpane.uucp (Harry Herman) writes:

>In <1991Apr25.150333.14057@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>>The contents of the elmheaders file are merely appended to your headers.
>>There is no processing to eliminate duplicates or whatever. That's
>>how it works.
>I have the same problem.  I most cases I want the Reply-To: line from the
>elmheaders file to be put in, but in some cases I do not.

>Could the developers of ELM make a change to the next release of ELM to
>append the headers out of the elmheaders file BEFORE you edit the text,
>and allow them to be editted and/or deleted either while editting the
>text or with the "edit headers" command?
No, we cannot make such a change.  The problem is in how Elm tells
the MTA where the headers end and the message starts.  Anything in
the text buffer is part of the text of the message and not the headers.

It would require a rewrite of how Elm handles the headers to change this
which is why cries for editable headers and text have fallen on deaf
ears. Its just not the way Elm was written and without a rewrite it
won't happen.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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