liz@grian.UUCP (Liz Allen-Mitchell) (06/11/88)
In article <19305@watmath.waterloo.edu> sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: >Want to use the regular Unix "mail" program to compose >replies to news articles from within "rn", rather than >the "Rnmail" shell script? Well, I do. I do it like this: > >i) arrange to have rn take its options from a file, by something like > setenv RNINIT ~/.rninit > >ii) in my .rninit file, add these three lines: > >-EMAILHEADER='From %t %`date` >' >-EMAILPOSTER='cat %A >>%h; mail -f %h' I've been using something similar to use mh's comp to reply to mail: -EMAILPOSTER='/usr/local/bin/comp -form %h' -EMAILHEADER='To: %T\\n\ Cc: liz\\n\ Subject: Re: %S\\n\ Newsgroups: %n\\n\ In-Reply-To: %i\\n' If you want to use it, you should change the "liz" up there to your login! -- - Liz Allen-Mitchell liz@grian.cps.com elroy!grian!liz@csvax.caltech.edu {cit-vax,ames}!elroy!grian!liz "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (06/11/88)
|I've been using something similar to use mh's comp to reply to mail: | | -EMAILPOSTER='/usr/local/bin/comp -form %h' | -EMAILHEADER='To: %T\\n\ | Cc: liz\\n\ | Subject: Re: %S\\n\ | Newsgroups: %n\\n\ | In-Reply-To: %i\\n' Here is the bells and whistles one I've been using: -EMAILPOSTER="MHCONTEXT=/tmp/mhc.%L comp -form %h -editor ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-vi}}" -EMAILHEADER=\ 'To: %t\\n\ Fcc: +CC\\n\ Subject: %(%i=^$?:Re: %S\\n\ X-Newsgroups: %n\\n\ In-Reply-To: %i)\\n\ X-Original-Path: %T\\n\ X-Organization: %o\\n\ X-UUCP: ..!rochester!ken Internet: ken@cs.rochester.edu\\n\ X-Snail: CS Dept., U. of Roch., NY 14627. Voice: Ken!\\n\ --\\n\ ' In particular, %t works better than %T, because it uses Reply-To or From. For an Internet site, at least. Maybe %T is better for uucp sites. But I drag in %T also, in case I can't work out the return address. I used to use this for MAILPOSTER: -EMAILPOSTER="MHCONTEXT=/tmp/mhc.%L repl -form %h -editor ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-vi}} +%d %a" It had the advantage of allowing you to read in the original article with :r @. But they broke repl -from in MH 6.5, sigh... Ken
jos@philapd.UUCP (Jos Vos) (06/15/88)
In article <19305@watmath.waterloo.edu> sahayman@watmath.waterloo.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: >Want to use the regular Unix "mail" program to compose >replies to news articles from within "rn", rather than >the "Rnmail" shell script? Well, I do. I do it like this: >i) arrange to have rn take its options from a file, by something like > setenv RNINIT ~/.rninit >ii) in my .rninit file, add these three lines: > >-EMAILHEADER='From %t %`date` >' >-EMAILPOSTER='cat %A >>%h; mail -f %h' > >Now, when I type 'r', rn dumps the current article into a >file that looks like a mailbox, and then starts mail looking >at that file; type "r" within mail to reply. I like this >a lot better than "Rnmail" even though I have to type "r" twice, >and don't get any of that "In article such-and-such you write" stuff. What's really needed, I think, is the functionality of readnews' followup, substituting the address in the 'internet' address of 'LIB/mailpaths'. For that reason I adapted Rnmail.SH (and so Rnmail changes in the same way). Here's the extra piece of text to be put after line 145 (just after the first part of file $tmpart is made): --- START OF INSERTED TEXT --- # START OF DESTINATION ADDRESS CONVERSION # Equivalent to function 'replyname' (netnews/src/funcs2.c) # search for 'internet' entry in file /usr/lib/mailpaths iformat=`expr "\`$grep '^internet' /usr/lib/news/mailpaths\`" : \ 'internet[ ][ ]*\([^ ]*\)'` # if no entry is found, just assume we can handle internet addresses if test -n "$iformat" then # extract (internet) destination address from temporary file to=`expr "\`$grep '^To:' $tmpart\`" : 'To:[ ]*\([^ ]*\)'` # if format string contains no '!' or '@' we may just substitute if $test `expr "$iformat" : '[^!@]*$'` -eq 0 then # format string contains '!' and/or '@' if $test `expr "$iformat" : '[^@]*$'` -gt 0 then # format string contains no '@' # if to string contains no '@', nothing will change to=`$echo "$to" | sed 's/^\([^@]*\)@\(.*\)$/\2!\1/'` else # format string contains '@' # if to string contains no '@', nothing will change to=`$echo "$to" | sed 's/@/%/'` fi fi # now we can substitute the bang address into the format string to=`awk "END { printf \"$iformat\", \"$to\" }" < /dev/null` # finally, we have to replace the address in the temporary file $echo "/^To:/c\nTo: $to\n.\nw\nq" | ed - -s $tmpart fi # END OF DESTINATION ADDRESS CONVERSION --- END OF INSERTED TEXT --- I'm not sure it solves *all* problems, but I'm quite sure it solves *the same* problems as the routine in funcs2.c (readnews) does. For me that's enough. -- # Jos Vos # Internet jos@philapd.UUCP # # Philips TDS, Dept SSP # # # P.O. Box 245 # UUCP ..!mcvax!philapd!jos # # 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands # Phone +31 55 433181 #