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A couple enhancement requests that could make it in 2.4?

#3668
From: Mike O'Connor
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 03:18
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Someone must have asked for these before, buttttt...

A) I'd like a:

replyto = email.address@some.site

setting in ~/.elm/elmrc, implemented in such a manner such that if I
need to edit the Reply-To: address, I can do so by entering the
Message Header Edit Screen.  I was sort of expecting this in Elm 2.4
and was quite surprised to find out that I still had to do the same
old ~/.elm/elmheaders hack.

B) I'd like a:

mta = something-other-than-the-default

setting in ~/.elm/elmrc, kinda like "set sendmail" in implementations
of /usr/ucb/Mail.  This would allow users to process their email
before having it hit sendmail/smail/whatever, or possibly to redirect
to a smart host or otherwise bypass a stupid local MTA.  I can
implement this by using some sort of warped script instead of
sendmail, but after seeing a simple "smtp-server=" line in .pinerc
along with the Berkeley mail set, I figured this is something some
poeple out there may want.

Now it's quite possible that someone has already implemented code to
do this, either for Elm 2.3 or 2.4, or that there are unseen
difficulties in implementing the above that I haven't figured.  But I
really don't know, and don't really want to become intimate with elm
2.4 with 3.0 just around the corner <laughs> so I'm asking for input
on this.  Please direct replies to the newsgroup.


						...Mike
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From: mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: A couple enhancement requests that could make it in 2.4?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 03:18:17 GMT
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