mbn@fpssun.fps.com (Mike Northam ext 2651) (08/10/89)
You will note that my "Reply-To:" field (which gets invoked with
'r'eply and 'f'ollowup from rn) appears to be inappropriate for the
world outside my company. sns4 is a Sun file server (which I rlogin
to to access the news.) I presume that anyone doing an 'r'
to one of my articles will never reach me. Am I off base
here?
I have tried RTFM, but I'm not enough of a Unix hacker to see how to
fix this. Local help has not been available thus far. How do I change
the contents of %H (hostname variable) to fpssun.fps.com (the name of
our domain in the usenet maps? Or maybe this isn't the right way to
address this issue at all?
Thanks in advance.
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No one knows how old a chicken gets---they never die of old age.chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) (08/11/89)
mbn@sns4.UUCP (Mike Northam ext 2651) writes: >[Re: rn's insistance on .UUCP] >How do I change the contents of %H (hostname variable) to fpssun.fps.com >(the name of our domain in the usenet maps? Or maybe this isn't the right >way to address this issue at all? The latter. It's just rn's way of showing it's age a bit. The .UUCP is hardcoded into a bunch of places -- it is not programmable. The approach most folks use is to grep the rn sources for all instances of .UUCP and manual change it. I've done a hack to "rn" which adds a DOMAINNAME parameter and a "%k" interpolation. Drop me a line if you want these patches. -- Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337 "I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom
tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (08/12/89)
In <544@sns4.fpssun.fps.com> mbn@fpssun.fps.com (Mike Northam) asked
about setting the Reply-To: field automatically while using rn. I
tried to reply by mail by neither fpssun.fps.com nor fps.com was found
for mailer TCP.
The way that I did it way back when I was using rn was to simply set
NEWSHEADER and MAILHEADER in my .rninit to be what I wanted. The nice
side effect is this is that I could then also tell it not to show me
blank fields that I would virtually never fill in, like Sender: or
Expires:. See the rn manual page for more information on setting
these variables.
Dave
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(setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) (08/12/89)
In article <544@sns4.fpssun.fps.com> mbn@sns4.UUCP (Mike Northam ext 2651) writes: >I have tried RTFM, but I'm not enough of a Unix hacker to see how to >fix this. Local help has not been available thus far. How do I change >the contents of %H (hostname variable) to fpssun.fps.com (the name of >our domain in the usenet maps? Or maybe this isn't the right way to >address this issue at all? Recompile rn with the "proper" configuration options. You don't need to be a programming wiz, but you do need the source available. -=EPS=-
wisner@mica.Berkeley.EDU (Bill Wisner) (08/12/89)
>The way that I did it way back when I was using rn was to simply set >NEWSHEADER and MAILHEADER in my .rninit to be what I wanted. Note that this only works for articles (and mail messages) posted from within rn. If you use Pnews your article will still contain the brain-dead old Reply-To: line. Get Chip Rosenthal's rn hacks. They'll work fine. (I implemented a virtually identical hack independently and probably still have it sitting around somewhere.) Bill Wisner wisner@mica.berkeley.edu ucbvax!mica!wisner It could have been worse. I could have been a Republican.
chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal) (08/13/89)
In article <408@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes: >Recompile rn with the "proper" configuration options. This is incorrect. The domain is not a configuration option in "rn" -- it is hardwired. Thus you either need to re-hardwire it or hack "rn" to make it configurable. -- Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337 "I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom