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From: dave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Responding to a letter with many CC's
Message-ID: <23@uwvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 05:03:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  2 05:03:30 1984
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> Recently I have received mail addressed to something like a dozen
> people including myself.  I would like to respond directly to all of
> them, but the paths generated are far from optimal.  Is there a way I
> could get the names out of the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines so that I could
> process them in the editor or a path optimizing program without having
> to type them all in by hand?  Could I use sendmail directly somehow?

You can save the message is a file.  Next, edit this file making a new
message from it.  Make sure the header of the new message has a 'From:',
and a 'To:' line (subject is nice too).  Make sure there is *not* a
'From ' line in the new header.  Basically, you new header should look
like the header 2.10.2 vnews gives you in a reply.  Then, start
sendmail on the message with a '-t' option to look at the headers to
decide who to send to.

I now use a mail sender which basically does this (puts me in vi and
does a 'sendmail -t' on the resulting message).  I like this much
better than the ucb/Mail interface.

-- 
(Bug?  What bug?  That's a feature!)

Dave Cohrs
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