andy@icom.UUCP (Andrew H. Marrinson) (09/03/86)
First for vn: Vn (a news reader recently posted to net.sources) uses the Path: line as the address to send mail to when replying to an article with the 'm' command. I have context diffs to make it use the Reply-to: field if present, otherwise the From: field. For those with the appropriate routing software, this is far superior. Second for smail: This is the auto-routing mailer recently posted to mod.sources (not to be confused with Smail, which was posted some time ago). First let me say I am quite happy with this package. I had been in the process of writing something similar. Thanks, you saved me the trouble. However, my much hacked upon mail package for Gosling Emacs relies on the mailer to parse To:, Cc:, and Bcc: headers, and also to insert a few headers. smail does not do this. It relies on sendmail to do it for sites that are running sendmail. Since we are not running sendmail, I have written a small program to crack the headers into command line arguments for smail, and also add From: or Sender:, Date:, and Message-ID: headers. Thus sites that do not run sendmail, can pretend that they are. Furthermore, you can edit a message in emacs or vi, and mail it with the !! or filter-region-thru- command commands respectively. If anyone would like either or both of these, send me mail (andy@icom.UUCP, or ihnp4!icom!andy) indicating which you want. If I get more than a handfull of requests, I will post them to net.sources, otherwise I will simply mail them out. -- andy@icom.UUCP Or for those of Andrew H. Marrinson you who wish to ICOM Systems, Inc. play it the hard Arlington Heights, IL 60005 way: ihnp4!icom!andy