karron@mcirps2.med.nyu.EDU (10/18/90)
When I peruse my (set record=recordfile) copies of my outbound mail, I want to be able to set the 'showto' variable from the command line (Mail -f xxx.oldmail showto=1). I use the showto option (set showto) to see the 'To' field, instead of the 'From' field, which make more sense when looking at my own outbound mail. Is there a mechanism to set this from a command line argument ? If not, there should be. Mail ignores the 'prompt' variable. You can't to a 'set prompt=MyMachine>>'. This would be nice, and better if it would get the prompt value from the shell environment. Is there a awk script to index mail messages ? I have used the hack (echo h)| Mail -f xxx, but it only prints the first screen full of headers. I would like to index all my mail, perhaps with an eye toward making a keyword index that would ignore headers. I find my self going through my mail archives quite often, and it is a valuable reference for technical info from the net. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | karron@nyu.edu Dan Karron | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York University Medical Center | | 560 First Avenue \ \ Pager <1> (212) 397 9330 | | New York, New York 10016 \**\ <2> 10896 <3> <your-number-here> | | (212) 340 5210 \**\__________________________________________ | | Please Note :Soon to move to dan@karron.med.nyu.edu 128.122.135.3 (Mid Oct)| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+