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From: gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: learning mh
Message-ID: <8982@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 88 20:16:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: ihlpb.8982
References: <376@tron.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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From article <376@tron.UUCP>, by carson@tron.UUCP (Dana Carson):
> 
>     A specific question is how do I tailor my headers.  I want to
> always have a Fcc line in the header.  The components file seems to be
> the place to start but I don't want to change it for everybody on the
> system :-).  What is the user level way to do it.  I've tried a
> components file in ~HOME, a .components , and the same in ~HOME/Mail.

While not completely obvious, it is true that each mh program looks for
a line in YOUR .mh_profile file when it starts up.  That line starts with
the program name followed by a colon.  For example, comp looks for the
line beginning with 'comp:'.  These lines contain default command line
arguments that you would like to give to a particular command.  I use
lines like

scan: -form scan.st
repl: -annotate -filter inbody -nocc me
next: -noheader
prev: -noheader
send: -msgid -verbose -alias aliases
show: -noheader
ali: -alias aliases

in my .profile.  One of the real benefits of this setup is that you can
copy repl (or comp) to a file by another name, e.g. thanks, and add the
line

thanks: -format thankscomp

to you .mh_profile and create the file 'thankscomp' in you mh directory.
It can contain whatever you want.  In this example it might just say

...header stuff as from replcomps...

Thanks...

...your signature...

or it might be as personal as you want.  You can do the same thing with
comp to allow you to use mail messages with precomposed To: lists.  There
are lots of other posibilities...

Gregg Wonderly
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