Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site redwood.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!fortune!foros1!redwood!rpw3 From: rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Responding to a letter with many CC's Message-ID: <76@redwood.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Nov-84 23:16:27 EST Article-I.D.: redwood.76 Posted: Sun Nov 4 23:16:27 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Nov-84 07:37:32 EST References: <570@turtlevax.UUCP> <23@uwvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: [Consultant], Foster City, CA Lines: 36 +--------------- | 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. | | Dave Cohrs | ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!dave | dave@wisc-rsch.arpa +--------------- I too prefer to be able to diddle the headers directly, but don't have 'sendmail' available, but I do have 'recmail', so: I have been playing around with having 'rmail' post mail to newsgroup "mail.to." (e.g. "mail.to.rpw3") for local mail (no "!"s or "@"s), and then using 'vnews' as a reader, and 'recmail' as a sender (either indirectly from the 'vnews' "r" (reply) command or from a small shell script, for new letters). So far, I have been chicken about turning this on permanently... I'm on a single user system, but is it "safe"? Any comments, folks? (I know, I know, on a multi-user system anyone could read anyone's mail, but I presume yet-another-option-switch to 'inews' could fix that, or maybe even just careful ownerships/modes on the "$SPOOLDIR/mail/to//" directory.) B.t.w., with regard to the "r" versus "R" versus command-flag discussion, given that the "reply" script calls your editor with both letters, it IS possible to make a single 'vi' macro ("map") that can (1) go to the ":n"ext file (the letter/news we are responding to), (2) "y"ank it into a named register, (3) ":e#" back to the letter, and (4) drop the referenced mail/article. I use the key, myself. ;-} Rob Warnock UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 Envoy: rob.warnock/kingfisher USPS: 510 Trinidad Ln, Foster City, CA 94404