ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) (10/30/84)
Recently I have received mail addressed to something like a dozen
people including myself. I would like to respond directly to all of
them, but the paths generated are far from optimal. Is there a way I
could get the names out of the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines so that I could
process them in the editor or a path optimizing program without having
to type them all in by hand? Could I use sendmail directly somehow?
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Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Palo Alto, CA
UUCP: {amd,decwrl,flairvax,nsc}!turtlevax!ken
ARPA: turtlevax!ken@DECWRL.ARPAdave@uwvax.UUCP (Dave Cohrs) (11/02/84)
> Recently I have received mail addressed to something like a dozen > people including myself. I would like to respond directly to all of > them, but the paths generated are far from optimal. Is there a way I > could get the names out of the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: lines so that I could > process them in the editor or a path optimizing program without having > to type them all in by hand? Could I use sendmail directly somehow? You can save the message is a file. Next, edit this file making a new message from it. Make sure the header of the new message has a 'From:', and a 'To:' line (subject is nice too). Make sure there is *not* a 'From ' line in the new header. Basically, you new header should look like the header 2.10.2 vnews gives you in a reply. Then, start sendmail on the message with a '-t' option to look at the headers to decide who to send to. I now use a mail sender which basically does this (puts me in vi and does a 'sendmail -t' on the resulting message). I like this much better than the ucb/Mail interface. -- (Bug? What bug? That's a feature!) Dave Cohrs ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!dave dave@wisc-rsch.arpa
mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (11/04/84)
In fact, you don't even need to save the message in a file, just invoke the editor directly from Mail using the 'v' command: & v ... edit headers ... & r (or R as the local custom may dictate) It is also possible to just create a file with the To: and Cc: lines (and other headers and body of the reply you're trying to create) and invoke "/usr/lib/sendmail -t < file". The news reply program has a similar purpose, but works on systems that don't have sendmail.
rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) (11/05/84)
+--------------- | I now use a mail sender which basically does this (puts me in vi and | does a 'sendmail -t' on the resulting message). I like this much | better than the ucb/Mail interface. | | Dave Cohrs | ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!dave | dave@wisc-rsch.arpa +--------------- I too prefer to be able to diddle the headers directly, but don't have 'sendmail' available, but I do have 'recmail', so: I have been playing around with having 'rmail' post mail to newsgroup "mail.to.<person>" (e.g. "mail.to.rpw3") for local mail (no "!"s or "@"s), and then using 'vnews' as a reader, and 'recmail' as a sender (either indirectly from the 'vnews' "r" (reply) command or from a small shell script, for new letters). So far, I have been chicken about turning this on permanently... I'm on a single user system, but is it "safe"? Any comments, folks? (I know, I know, on a multi-user system anyone could read anyone's mail, but I presume yet-another-option-switch to 'inews' could fix that, or maybe even just careful ownerships/modes on the "$SPOOLDIR/mail/to/<person>/" directory.) B.t.w., with regard to the "r" versus "R" versus command-flag discussion, given that the "reply" script calls your editor with both letters, it IS possible to make a single 'vi' macro ("map") that can (1) go to the ":n"ext file (the letter/news we are responding to), (2) "y"ank it into a named register, (3) ":e#" back to the letter, and (4) drop the referenced mail/article. I use the <SHIFTED-NEXT-SCREEN> key, myself. ;-} Rob Warnock UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!amd}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 Envoy: rob.warnock/kingfisher USPS: 510 Trinidad Ln, Foster City, CA 94404