friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) (03/16/88)
Hi folks,
Is there a built-in way in vnews to record outgoing
postings? Sure, I can save them to a file at post or read time
but it would be nice if there were a way to do it automatically
ala mailx's "record" facility.
While I'm at it, which mailer should I get to properly
handle standard!domain.based:mail%addresses@my-machine? I use
standard rmail on my 3B2: it does a !-up job with uucp addresses
but doesn't know where it's @ on the other ones. I like my
front-end (mailx): just the delivery agent is wanted. I hear
there is Elm, smail, and sendmail but this is new stuff to me.
Recommendations and availability are requested.
Please respond via email. Thanks.
Steve
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"It's sad we judge others by their actions and ourselves by our motives"friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) (03/20/88)
In article <398@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP I write: > Is there a built-in way in vnews to record outgoing > postings? Sure, I can save them to a file at post or read time > but it would be nice if there were a way to do it automatically > ala mailx's "record" facility. Hi folks (again), Thanks to everybody who responded to my request for information. The winner is Derek Terveer (det@hawkmoon.mn.org) who points out that the environment variable $NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my postings in the specified file: $ grep NEWSARCHIVE .profile NEWSARCHIVE=$HOME/my.postings ; export NEWSARCHIVE The other suggestions related to changing the netnews sys file so *all* outgoing postings (from everybody) could be saved; these were not quite what I was looking for while $NEWSARCHIVE is *exactly* what I wanted. Thanks again everybody, Steve -- Steve Friedl friedl@vsi.com {uunet, attmail, ihnp4!amdcad!uport}!vsi!friedl
kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (03/27/88)
In article <417@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: >In article <398@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP I write: >> Is there a built-in way in vnews to record outgoing postings? >the environment variable $NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my >postings in the specified file: Does anybody know of an equivalent feature in rn? -- Karl Swartz |UUCP decvax!formtek!ditka!kls 1-412/937-4930 office | {floyd,pitt,psuvax1}!idis!formtek!ditka!kls |BIX kswartz "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Twain)
esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) (03/29/88)
In article <222@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes: >In article <417@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: > >>the environment variable $NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my >>postings in the specified file: > >Does anybody know of an equivalent feature in rn? > Nope, it does not exist in rn. (or, more specifically, Pnews) But.. Pnews (the program which does all the posting for rn and rrn) is just a little shell script. You can easily modify it to do anything you want. Have fun.. I have. -- In Real Life: Internet: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu Eric S. Johnson II UUCP: ...{codas|gatech}!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!esj University of Florida Think of it as entropy in action :-)
jwp@chem.ucsd.edu (John Pierce) (03/29/88)
>>>$NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my postings in the specified file... >>Does anybody know of an equivalent feature in rn? >Nope, it does not exist in rn. (or, more specifically, Pnews) Setting AUTHORCOPY=file (either in the environment or the file specified by the environment variable RNINIT) causes Pnews to save the outgoing article in 'file'. This was added in the 4.3.1.3 version of Pnews, dated 85/08/01. -- John Pierce Chemistry Dept, B-032, UC San Diego Internet: jwp@chem.ucsd.edu UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 Bitnet: jwpierce@ucsd +1 619 534 0203
cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) (03/29/88)
In article <222@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes: -In article <417@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: ->In article <398@vsi.UUCP>, friedl@vsi.UUCP I write: ->> Is there a built-in way in vnews to record outgoing postings? - ->the environment variable $NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my ->postings in the specified file: - -Does anybody know of an equivalent feature in rn? - yea, under 4.2 bsd (Ultrix) set $AUTHORCOPY. -charles -- Charles Daffinger >Take me to the river, Drop me in the water< (812) 339-7354 cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu {pur-ee,rutgers,pyramid,ihnp4}!iuvax!cdaf Home of the Whitewater mailing list: whitewater-request@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry) (03/31/88)
In article <417@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: >the environment variable $NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my >postings in the specified file: In article <222@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes: > >Does anybody know of an equivalent feature in rn? In article <13756@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) writes: >Nope, it does not exist in rn. (or, more specifically, Pnews) >But.. Pnews (the program which does all the posting for rn and rrn) >is just a little shell script. You can easily modify it to do anything >you want. Have fun.. I have. > You should not have to modify Pnews at all. Just add the environment variable AUTHORCOPY to your profile or to your rn options file and all postings will be saved to the specified file. If you want a copy kept of any mail sent as replies while in rn, set the environment variable MAILRECORD. Bill McGarry Bunker Ramo, Shelton, CT PATH: {philabs, decvax, fortune, yale}!bunker!wtm