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From: liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Quick hack to use the normal mail program for replies in rn
Summary: similar hack for mh
Message-ID: <1284@grian.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 88 22:28:17 GMT
References: <19305@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell)
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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In article <19305@watmath.waterloo.edu> sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu
	(Steve Hayman) writes:
>Want to use the regular Unix "mail" program to compose
>replies to news articles from within "rn", rather than
>the "Rnmail" shell script?  Well, I do.  I do it like this:
>
>i) arrange to have rn take its options from a file, by something like 
>   setenv RNINIT ~/.rninit
>
>ii) in my .rninit file, add these three lines:
>
>-EMAILHEADER='From %t %`date`
>'
>-EMAILPOSTER='cat %A >>%h; mail -f %h'

I've been using something similar to use mh's comp to reply to mail:

	-EMAILPOSTER='/usr/local/bin/comp -form %h'
	-EMAILHEADER='To: %T\\n\
	Cc: liz\\n\
	Subject: Re: %S\\n\
	Newsgroups: %n\\n\
	In-Reply-To: %i\\n'

If you want to use it, you should change the "liz" up there to your
login!
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		- Liz Allen-Mitchell	liz@grian.cps.com
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