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From: lemke@radius.UUCP (Steve Lemke)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm in RN
Message-ID: <1249@radius.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 02:02:58 GMT
References: <8150@netcom.UUCP> <5064@itivax.iti.org>
Reply-To: radius!lemke@apple.com
Organization: Radius Inc., San Jose, CA
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In article <5064@itivax.iti.org> scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
}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?
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Gee, I'm glad you asked (and I'm glad Steve asked in the first place).

I would like to use elm with rn because then all my replies to messages
on usenet would be saved in my elm "outbox".  Frequently I'll think "Gee,
I know I sent a reply to someone about that, but I don't have a copy of
it anywhere!"  --  If I had used elm through rn, I would have a copy.  I
guess I _could_ cc: myself, but I don't usually think of it.  Perhaps I
could modify the rn code to include a "cc: lemke" line in the reply header.
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