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From: darrell@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Feature addition idea
Message-ID: <51900010@mcdurb>
Date: 14 Dec 88 16:22:00 GMT
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/* Written 12:50 am  Dec 13, 1988 by rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM in mcdurb:comp.mail.elm */
> In article <1094@raspail.UUCP> steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) writes:
> +One neat feature that I think would be good to have in elm is the
> +	Return-Receipt-To:
> +header line.  It would be nice enough just to have it there so I
> +don't have to type out that header name in a user defined header,
> +and incredibly great to be able to have it generated automatically.
> 
> This can easily be accomplished by creating an elmheaders file.
> If you have using ELM 2.1 (or later version) this file resides
> in your .elm directory. For earlier versions you need a $HOME/.elmheaders
> file.
> 
> When you mail a message, the contents of this file are included after
> the standard mail headers but before the newline that begins the message
> body.

Yes, you can put the header in your .elmheaders file but then it goes
out with every message.  Many times I've wanted to be able to include
it with some messages but not others.  Having to type such a long
string as a user defined header is a real pain too, especially if you
don't type well.

Having it show up in the headers menu would be nice but selecting this
item would conflict with the Reply-To: header; elm uses the first letter
of the header as the selection key.  Some other scheme would have to be
used or the Reply-To: header removed from the menu.  Perhaps each header
in the menu could be numbered and selection made by number instead of
first letter.

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Darrell McIntosh, Motorola Microcomputer Division, Urbana [IL] Design Center
Phone: +1 217 384 8509
Email: darrell@urbana.mcd.mot.com, mcdurb!darrell, uunet!uiucuxc!mcdurb!darrell