jspatric@vela.acs.oakland.edu (/dev/null) (01/05/91)
I use the rn newsreader. I wish to use elm to send out mail messages in news rather than Rnmail, for obvious reasons. What do I need to set the rn MAILPOSTER environment variable to? Thanks! -- -- jspatric@vela.acs.oakland.edu -- ...!uunet!umich!vela!jspatric -- --
jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (01/06/91)
In article <4546@vela.acs.oakland.edu> jspatric@vela.acs.oakland.edu (/dev/null) writes: >I use the rn newsreader. I wish to use elm to send out mail messages >in news rather than Rnmail, for obvious reasons. What do I need to >set the rn MAILPOSTER environment variable to? In order to accomplish exactly what you are after, I set MAILPOSTER to a slight variation of the default: MAILPOSTER="Rnmail.jpr -h %h" Here's Rnmail.jpr: : use /bin/sh # Rnmail.jpr, for my use of 'elm' in replying to news articles # @(#) JPRadley 8 Aug 90 # mailer="/pub/bin/elm" # your site name case undef in define) sitename=`` ;; undef) sitename="jpradley" ;; esac # your organization name orgname="/usr/lib/news/organization" # what pager you use--if you have kernal paging use cat pager="${PAGER-/pub/bin/less}" # how you derive full names, bsd, usg, or other nametype="bsd" # default editor defeditor="/usr/bin/vi" # how not to do a newline with echo n="" c="\c" test=test sed=/bin/sed echo=/bin/echo cat=/bin/cat grep=/usr/bin/egrep rm=/bin/rm dotdir=${DOTDIR-${HOME-$LOGDIR}} tmpart=$dotdir/.letter headerfile="" case $# in 0) ;; *) case $1 in -h) headerfile="$2" case $# in 3) oldart=$3 ;; esac ;; esac ;; esac case $headerfile in '') case $# in 0) to=h while $test "$to" = h ; do $echo "" $echo $n "To: $c" read to case $to in h) $cat <<'EOH' Type the net address of those people that you wish the message sent to. Additional recipients may be added on the Cc: line when you edit. Separate multiple addresses with spaces. EOH ;; esac done ;; *) to="$*" ;; esac to=`$echo "$to" | $sed 's/ */ /g'` title=h while $test "$title" = h ; do $echo "" $echo $n "Title/Subject: $c" read title case $title in h) $cat <<'EOH' Type the title for your message. EOH ;; esac done # now build a file with a header for them to edit orgname=${ORGANIZATION-$orgname} case $orgname in /*) orgname=`$cat $orgname` ;; esac $cat > $tmpart <<EOHeader To: $to Subject: $title Organization: $orgname Cc: Bcc: EOHeader ;; *) $cat < $headerfile > $tmpart ;; esac file=h while $test "$file" = h ; do $echo "" $echo $n "Prepared file to include [none]: $c" read file case $file in h) $cat <<'EOH' If you have already produced the body of your message, type the filename for it here. If you just want to proceed directly to the editor, type a RETURN. In any event, you will be allowed to edit as many times as you want before you send off the message. EOH ;; '') $echo "" >> $tmpart state=edit ;; *) $cat $file >>$tmpart state=ask ;; esac done $echo "" while true ; do case $state in edit) rescue="sleep 1; $cat $tmpart >>${HOME-$LOGDIR}/dead.letter ; $echo Message appended to ${HOME-$LOGDIR}/dead.letter ; exit" trap "$rescue" 1 trap : 2 case "${VISUAL-${EDITOR-}}" in '') tmp=h ;; *) tmp='' ;; esac while $test "$tmp" = h ; do $echo $n "Editor [${VISUAL-${EDITOR-$defeditor}}]: $c" read tmp case $tmp in h) $cat <<'EOH' Type a return to get the default editor, or type the name of the editor you prefer. The default editor depends on the VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables. EOH ;; '') ;; *) VISUAL=$tmp export VISUAL ;; esac done ${VISUAL-${EDITOR-$defeditor}} $tmpart $oldart trap "$rescue" 2 state=ask ;; ask) $echo "" $echo $n "Send, abort, edit, or list? $c" read ans case $ans in a*) state=rescue ;; e*) set $ans case $# in 2) VISUAL="$2" ;; esac state=edit ;; l*) $pager $tmpart state=ask ;; s*) state=send ;; h*) $cat <<'EOH' Type s to send the message, a to abort and append the message to dead.letter, e to edit the message again, or l to list the message. To invoke an alternate editor, type 'e editor'. EOH esac ;; send) if $test -f $dotdir/.signature; then echo $n "Append .signature file? [y] $c" read ans case $ans in ''|y*) echo "-- " >> $tmpart cat $dotdir/.signature >> $tmpart ;; esac fi case $mailer in *sendmail) $mailer -t <$tmpart ;; # but recmail does not know about Bcc, alas *recmail) $mailer <$tmpart ;; *) S=`$sed <$tmpart -n -e '/^Subject:/{' -e 's/Subject: *//p' -e q -e '}'` set X `$sed <$tmpart -n -e '/^To:/{' -e 's/To: *//p' -e q -e '}'` shift set X "$@" `$sed <$tmpart -n -e '/^Cc:/{' -e 's/Cc: *//p' -e q -e '}'` shift set X "$@" `$sed <$tmpart -n -e '/^Bcc:/{' -e 's/Bcc: *//p' -e q -e '}'` shift $grep -v "^Bcc:|^To:|^Subject:" <$tmpart | $mailer -s "$S" "$@" ;; esac case $? in 0) state=cleanup ;; *) state=rescue ;; esac ;; rescue) $cat $tmpart >> ${HOME-$LOGDIR}/dead.letter $echo "Message appended to ${HOME-$LOGDIR}/dead.letter" $echo "A copy may be temporarily found in $tmpart" exit ;; cleanup) case "${MAILRECORD-none}" in none) ;; *) if $cat $tmpart >> $MAILRECORD; then $echo "Article appended to $MAILRECORD" else $echo "Cannot append to $MAILRECORD" fi ;; esac exit ;; esac done Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341