Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!ncar!tank!nic.MR.NET!shamash!raspail!steve
From: steve@raspail.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Feature addition idea
Message-ID: <1106@raspail.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 21:08:45 GMT
References: <1094@raspail.UUCP> <51900010@mcdurb>
Organization: Control Data Corporation, Arden Hills, MN
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> > In article <1094@raspail.UUCP>, I wrote:
> > +One neat feature that I think would be good to have in elm is the
> > +	Return-Receipt-To:
> > +header line.

> Written 12:50 am  Dec 13, 1988 by rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM:
> > This can easily be accomplished by creating an elmheaders file.

In article <51900010@mcdurb>, darrell@mcdurb.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
> Yes, you can put the header in your .elmheaders file but then it goes
> out with every message.  [...]

This is one thing that bothers me about the elmheaders solution to the
problem.  From an in town site, I'd like my return address to show up
as "raspail!steve", but from a distant site "uunet!rosevax!raspail!steve"
works better.  I don't want a receipt at all on mail withing this machine
especially if it has to go all the way to uunet just to come back.  That
is the reason I expressed interest in having a smart receipt generator in
my original posting.  Making it a menu item would be a good as a "keep it
simple, stupid" solution, and be _much_ more portable. 

> 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.

No, _please_ not numbered menu items!  I think a better solution for this
would be to have "Reply-To:" be menu item "r", and "Return-Receipt-To:" be
menu item "R".  Sure, making things case sensitive isn't as friendly as a
lot of things in elm, but it sure beats numbered headers!  For people who
want to avoid the shift key, it might be nice to have a particular special
character as an alias for "R".