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From: bill@ssbn.UUCP (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: news.config,news.software.b,news.sysadmin
Subject: Mailing from rn
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Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 12:07:12 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 12:07:12 1987
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The smail router is quite capable of shortening the incredibly long paths
that can be generated on a news article.  It must, however, be told to
re-route (which is not it's normal default).  The default mailer for rn
is /usr/lib/news/recmail and the mailto function uses execlp to invoke the
local or default mailer.  A comment suggests that you should define the
mailer of your preference as -DMAILER=my_mailer.  If you do define it as
#define MAILER "/bin/smail -R" the execlp will fail because it's expecting
arguments.  If, however, you change line 220 in recmail.c from
     execlp(mailer,mailer,recip,(char *)0);   to read
     execlp("/bin/smail","smail","-R",recip,(char *)0);
it will force smail to re-route mail replies out of rn.  I'm sure there is
a more elegant way to do it but that worked for me.

Another nuisance can be fixed in the Rnmail script.  The 2.11 recmail
program already appends $HOME/.signature to everything that goes through
it.  If you eliminate the prompt for .signature in Rnmail or make the default
be "no" there will be fewer things floating around with double signatures.
-- 
Bill Kennedy ...{cbosgd,rutgers,ihnp4!petro}!ed ake ptr