[comp.mail.mush] record option

stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) (10/23/90)

Many of our users have complained that mush doesn't have an option
to always automatically cc themselves.  (metoo only includes the
sender if the recipients includes an alias, which includes the
sender.  Berkeley mail documents metoo the same, but in fact seems
to always cc the sender, regardless of any aliases.)  Someone
pointed out using "set record"; eg, "set record=/usr/spool/mail/stanonik".
Does mush lock the record file?  If not, then this method risks
losing mail if new mail arrives coincidently with mush updating
the record file.

Another frequent complaint is that mushtool reply can't be configured
(per user) to be replyall.  Are we overlooking some option?

Thanks,

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil
ucsd!nprdc!stanonik

argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) (10/23/90)

In article <10261@arctic.nprdc.arpa> stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes:
> Many of our users have complained that mush doesn't have an option
> to always automatically cc themselves.
You could add a my_hdr:
my_hdr Cc: user

> pointed out using "set record"; eg, "set record=/usr/spool/mail/stanonik".
> Does mush lock the record file?
Yes -- it locks the record file and will also lock the spool file
if it has to.  You will not lose new mail..

> Another frequent complaint is that mushtool reply can't be configured
> (per user) to be replyall.  Are we overlooking some option?

I assume you mean that you want the reply button to do replyall
without having to bring up the menu... there's no way to do that.
But, you can bind a function key:

fkey F4 replyall

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timcc@csv.viccol.edu.au (Tim Cook) (10/25/90)

In article <10261@arctic.nprdc.arpa>, stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
writes:
> Many of our users have complained that mush doesn't have an option
> to always automatically cc themselves.
>
> Someone
> pointed out using "set record"; eg, "set record=/usr/spool/mail/stanonik".

I think a useful enhancement would be to be able to have mush put a copy of
any message you originate on the end of your current folder.  I always save
my replies in the same folder as the message I reply to anyway.

Maybe the routine that looks at the record variable could be made to
recognise and expand a special string, such as "<current-folder>"?
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