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From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm in RN
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Date: 2 Mar 90 03:34:58 GMT
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jfh@netcom.UUCP (Jack Hamilton) writes:

>It doesn't appear possible to use Elm as the mailer for the RN "r"
>function.  Elm doesn't have a way to read in the header file that RN
>writes.

>I'd rather use Elm than the RN mailer.  Am I overlooking something?  If I'm
>not, please consider this to be a suggestion.

This is a feature, not a bug.  Elm is a user agent, not a transport
agent.  As such, it insulates the user from all those crufty things
like headers, etc.  Rn needs a more primitive ua (like /bin/mail)
or to talk directly to the transport agent.  After all, if rn is
generating all the headers/etc for you, why do you want elm?