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From: dattier@vpnet.chi.il.us (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Re-Mail Facility in ELM
Message-ID: <1991Jun23.193223.14558@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 23 Jun 91 19:32:23 GMT
References: <13862@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Jun22.173105.3478@vpnet.chi.il.us> <1991Jun23.121944.20994@ifi.uio.no>
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oea@ifi.uio.no (Odd Einar Aurbakken) wrote in
<1991Jun23.121944.20994@ifi.uio.no>:

| In article <1991Jun22.173105.3478@vpnet.chi.il.us>, [I had written]:
| > I'm not sure what you mean when you say "sets the headers properly."  That's
| > rather subjective and varies from use to use.

| I think this is what Bruce Sterling Woodcock had i mind, quote from 822:

| [citation from RFC822 deleted]

| Today there is no way to do this within elm. A command to resend mail
| should not alter any headers, just add enough "Resent-" headers to make
| sendmail (and others) understand you are resending a message and delete
| a few headers ("Status:" and possibly some others).

Then that is what elm's b)ounce command should do.  F)orward, which lets the
forwarder edit the text, correctly sends the final text out as a new letter
with the forwarder's name as the new sender and should work pretty much as it
does now.

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