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Article #5482Re: Elm in RN
From: Steve Lemke
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 02:02
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 1990 02:02
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In article <5064@itivax.iti.org> scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
}jfh@netcom.UUCP (Jack Hamilton) writes:
}
}>It doesn't appear possible to use Elm as the mailer for the RN "r"
}>function. Elm doesn't have a way to read in the header file that RN
}>writes.
}
}>I'd rather use Elm than the RN mailer. Am I overlooking something? If I'm
}>not, please consider this to be a suggestion.
}
}This is a feature, not a bug. Elm is a user agent, not a transport
}agent. As such, it insulates the user from all those crufty things
}like headers, etc. Rn needs a more primitive ua (like /bin/mail)
}or to talk directly to the transport agent. After all, if rn is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
}generating all the headers/etc for you, why do you want elm?
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Gee, I'm glad you asked (and I'm glad Steve asked in the first place).
I would like to use elm with rn because then all my replies to messages
on usenet would be saved in my elm "outbox". Frequently I'll think "Gee,
I know I sent a reply to someone about that, but I don't have a copy of
it anywhere!" -- If I had used elm through rn, I would have a copy. I
guess I _could_ cc: myself, but I don't usually think of it. Perhaps I
could modify the rn code to include a "cc: lemke" line in the reply header.
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----- Steve Lemke, Engineering Quality Assurance, Radius Inc., San Jose -----
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!radius!lemke From: lemke@radius.UUCP (Steve Lemke) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Elm in RN Message-ID: <1249@radius.UUCP> Date: 8 Mar 90 02:02:58 GMT References: <8150@netcom.UUCP> <5064@itivax.iti.org> Reply-To: radius!lemke@apple.com Organization: Radius Inc., San Jose, CA Lines: 29