[comp.emacs] remail for Rmail mode

faunt@CISCO.COM (Doug Faunt N6TQS 415-688-8269) (03/20/91)

Apparently people don't know what remail does.

Remail is a function that mm and mh have that preserves the to: and
from: lines, and adds resent-to:, resent-date:, and resent-from: lines.
A reply to the message uses the original header.  Useful when
dispatching messages for others to handle, for example. 
 
Below is an example of a remailed message header.  The original
message arrived on a dec-20, mathom, was ftped to a unix system,
stout, and was remailed using Columbia MM from there to myself at my
normal mail recipient machine, dirt.


Received: from stout.cisco.com by dirt.cisco.com with TCP; Tue, 19 Mar 91 09:13:24 -0800
Received: by stout.cisco.com; Tue, 19 Mar 91 09:10:57 -0800
Mail-From: FAUNT created at 8-Dec-88 13:51:02
Return-Path: <reid@decwrl.dec.com>
Received: from sonora.dec.com ([128.45.1.52].#Internet) by MATHOM.CISCO.COM
        with TCP; Fri 8 Jul 88 00:56:02-PDT
Received: from woodpecker.dec.com by sonora.dec.com (5.54.4/4.7.34) id
        AA06184; Fri, 8 Jul 88 00:55:11 PDT
Received: by woodpecker.dec.com (5.54.4/4.7.34) id AA04750; Fri, 8 Jul 88
        00:55:05 PDT
From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
Message-Id: <8807080755.AA04750@woodpecker.dec.com>
Date: 8 Jul 1988 0055-PDT (Friday)
To: recipes-cleartext@decwrl.dec.com
Subject: corrected version of Scotch Eggs
Resent-Message-Id: <12452865097.24.FAUNT@MATHOM.CISCO.COM>
Resent-To: faunt@cisco.com
Resent-Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 9:10:57 PST
Resent-From: Doug Faunt N6TQS 415-688-8269 <faunt@stout.cisco.com>



Also, my apologies to you all for two copies of my original request.
The original posting did not appear to have succeeded, so I used the
alternate mail method.  Obviously, both succeeded.

thanx, doug
<faunt@cisco.com>