[comp.mail.elm] YAER: how about making elm do this?

mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins) (05/11/91)

    I am totaly hooked on elm.  The one place I currently can't get it to
    work is as a mailer for nn (or rn/trn).

    I would like to see a new option that would allow the user to pass a file
    as a start, but allow more editing

    like this:

    elm -s <subject> -F <original article filename> <person>

    Then go into the editor or even prompt to edit, similar to the forward
    command today.  Having the included string put on as in forward would
    also be good.

    I don't know what this would take, but it's a thought....

Don

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mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor) (05/13/91)

In article <mullins.673909035@convex.convex.com> mullins@convex.com (Don Mullins) writes:
:
:    I am totaly hooked on elm.  The one place I currently can't get it to
:    work is as a mailer for nn (or rn/trn).
:

I use rn.  I used rn macros (the $DOTDIR/.rnmac stuff) to alias "R" to
"|/usr/lib/sendmail mjo".  Then I can reply to the message in mail when I
get into mail.  You could do much the same thing, with sendmail or
smail or whatever sort of mail agent that won't fiddle with the
headers.  



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Mike O'Connor (mjo@ais.org)