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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
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Subject: Re: How to set a "Reply-To: " filed in the mail header?
Message-ID: <7459@ogicse.ogc.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 16:51:37 GMT
References: <2773@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <51174@sgi.sgi.com>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <51174@sgi.sgi.com> roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (Robert Stephens) writes:
} In article <2773@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>, rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:
} > 
} > I use ucb mail in ULTRIX.  I wonder if there is an option to add
} > 
} > "Reply-To: a_preferred_return_address"
} 
} Not that I know of.  I just had to add such an option to our version of ucb
} Mail in IRIX.  I don't think you can do it at all with standard ucb Mail.

You can't do it "right", but you can do it:

----------------------------------------
#! /bin/sh
# "mail" front-end for Reply-To: headers
echo -n "Subject: "
read subject
# Note imbedded return in the "" text
mail -s "$subject
Reply-To: a_preferred_return_address" $*
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I won't go to the work of figuring out how to test for "set ask" before
prompting for the subject, nor how to parse a -s option to the script,
but it can be done.

You still ought to get Mush. ;-)

Just the other mush hacker,
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "February.  The hangnail on the big toe of the year."
                                                                    -- Duffy

schaefer@cse.ogi.edu (used to be cse.ogc.edu)