smk@linus.UUCP (Steven M. Kramer) (07/22/83)
linus had some mail problems but they are COMPLETELY fixed. I said
FIXED!!! Do NOT shut us off! Try out a sample if you want, and
see that you get a message thru linus. (Don't send to me, but use
linus in a path that mails bac to you.)
--
--steve kramer
{allegra,genrad,ihnp4,utzoo,philabs,uw-beaver}!linus!smk (UUCP)
linus!smk@mitre-bedford (ARPA)goutal@decvax.UUCP (Kenneth G. "Kenn" Goutal) (08/02/83)
Is it my imagination, or is there really no command in mail to forward a piece of mail to some other user? I've been over the man and over it, and can't find even a convenient workaround.Help?!? -- Kenn (decvax!)goutal
goutal@decvax.UUCP (Kenneth G. "Kenn" Goutal) (08/07/83)
Many thanks to the 25 or 30 of you who responded with the simple answer.
For those of you who also didn't know, but were (understandably)
afraid to ask, the answer is:
1. Use the "m <name>" response to a particular mail message.
This will do just what the manual says, namely put you in "send"
mode.
2. You may or may not be asked for a subject,
depending on your .mailrc file.
The mail program doesn't know you are forwarding something,
so isn't smart enough to use the subject line of the original
message. Oh, well.
3. Once you are in the part of sending mail where you actually are
typing in text, use one of the following tilde-escapes:
~f <n> to simply include the original message
or ~m <n> to include the original message,
indented by one tab stop.
In either case, the <n> is a mail message number, and is optional --
if you omit the <n>, the message you were last reading is included.
Now, I hope you will all pardon me for posting this rather trivial info.
The main reason I did this rather than thank each of you individually
and let it go at that, is that several of you mentioned that you couldn't
remember which tilde-escape did what, and several seemed to know of only
one option or the other, and at least one of you stated categorically
that "~f" is an undocumented feature. Well, now it ain't! Enjoy!
-- Kenn (decvax!)goutal