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From: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elmheaders question (Another one)
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.002530.12097@jadpc.cts.com>
Date: 30 Apr 91 00:25:30 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.150333.14057@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US> <1991Apr28.163720.7923@corpane.uucp> <1991Apr28.221614.446@DSI.COM>
Organization: Network Engineering Technologies, San Diego, CA.
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In article <1991Apr28.221614.446@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>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.

Then how about letting us edit them in the user defined headers
section?

Jim

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