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From: david.j.heiland
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:47
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On ELM 2.4 PL17, October 1, 1992:

Sorry if any of these questions can be found easily in the docs:

Is there a simple way to prepend a path to an address.  For instance, if
I send mail to djh@neptune.att.com, I want the mailer to prepend att!,
since my local machine does not yet know about internet addresses.  I
also need this if I send to machinex!usery and my local machine doesn't
know about machinex.  I don't want it prepended it my local machine
knows about the machine or if the user is on the current machine.

When I reply to mail from users on a system know to mine, the paths
tend to get messed up.  For instance, if userx on machinex sends a message
to me on machiney and CCs others on machiney, the replied to CC will have
machinex!machiney!otheruser instead of just otheruser.  Is there a way
to preprocess the To and CC lines?

When I hit r instead of g by accident (or vice versa), is there an easy
way to get back to the main screen without going all the way through and
then selecting forget, e.g., hitting Delete?

Is it possible to pull up my editor to edit my To or CC list when replying
to mail - right now I have to edit it inline, which usually means erasing
it and retyping what I want, even if I just removing one person.

On aliasing, why can't spaces be used in addition to commas?  It seems that
elm thinks some of my groups are persons if I nest my groups, e.g.,
group1=user1,user2   group2=user3,user4  bothgroups=group1,group2 bg=bothgroups
elm thinks bg is a person not a group.

Is there a way to have a system wide alias file in addition to the private
alias files.  This way only one person needs to maintain the group lists.

Thanks for the help.

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Dave Heiland   djh@neptune.att.com
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