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> Is there any way to call comp instead of rn's regular mailposter
> when you reply to or post a message?  I use rn (it's about all that's
> available on the elxsi) and sometimes read news in emacs.  Setting
> environment variables for MAILPOSTER, etc., doesn't override rn's
> natural beastiness.  Any experience with this?

I use it for replies.  I set this up few years ago, in a hurry, and
haven't touched it since.  It seems to work fine... I've forgotten all
the stuff I learned about 'rn' to make it work, though. :-)
But maybe it'll give you a start.

I put this in my .profile:
	RNINIT=$HOME/.rnswitches
	export RNINIT

Here's my $HOME/.rnswitches file.  You want MAILHEADER and MAILPOSTER,
and the "-F", I think.  I set the environment variables here in .rnswitches,
instead of my .profile, because I don't want them cluttering up my
environment when I'm not reading news:
	-d~/.news
	-EMAILHEADER="To: %f
	Subject: Re: %S
	Newsgroups: %n
	Fcc: inbox\\n\\n"
	-EMAILPOSTER="rn-ans -form %h"
	-F"> "
	-h +hfrom +hdate
	-2400-i=4
	+4800-i=15
	-m=u
	-N
	-S
	-t

I made a symbolic link in my bin directory to "comp":
	$ ls -l rn-ans
	lrwxrwxrwx  1 jdpeek   18 Nov  1  1988 rn-ans -> /usr/local/mh/comp

I put this line in my .mh_profile:
	rn-ans: -editor rn-ans.fixmsg

And my brainless 'rn-ans.fixmsg' editor is after the line below.
It basically just tacks a signature onto the draft file that 'rn'
makes, then puts me into 'vi' five lines above the end of the message. 
When the script ends, I'm at a What now? prompt; I just "push" the reply.
You could make a script like this do anything you want...

--Jerry Peek; Syracuse University Academic Computing Services; Syracuse, NY
  jdpeek@rodan.acs.syr.edu, JDPEEK@SUNRISE.BITNET        +1 315 443-3995

------- CUT HERE FOR BRAINLESS EDITOR -------------------------------------

# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line,
# then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file".
#
# Wrapped by rodan.acs.syr.edu!jdpeek on Sat Mar 10 04:04:07 EST 1990
# Contents:  rn-ans.fixmsg
 
echo extracting - rn-ans.fixmsg
sed 's/^X//' > "rn-ans.fixmsg" <<'X//E*O*F rn-ans.fixmsg//'
X#! /bin/sh
X###	rn-ans.fixmsg - editor for "r" and "R" commands in "rn"
X###	Usage in .mh_profile:   rn-ans: -editor rn-ans.fixmsg
X
X# IF CAN FIND MAIL SIGNATURE, ADD IT TO END OF DRAFT:
Xif [ -w "$1" ]
Xthen
X	for f in $HOME/.Mail/mailend $HOME/.signature
X	do
X		if [ -r $f ]
X		then
X			cat $f >> "$1"
X			break
X		fi
X	done
Xelse
X	echo "`basename $0`: can't write to draft '$1'.  Quitting." 1>&2
X	exit 1
Xfi
X
X# EDIT DRAFT WITH vi (IT BETTER NOT RETURN NON-ZERO OR DRAFT GETS ZAPPED?):
Xexec vi +'$-5' $1
X//E*O*F rn-ans.fixmsg//
chmod u=rw,g=,o= rn-ans.fixmsg
 
echo Inspecting for damage in transit...
temp=/tmp/shar$$; dtemp=/tmp/.shar$$
trap "rm -f $temp $dtemp; exit" 0 1 2 3 15
cat > $temp <<\!!!
      22      89     492 /tmp/rn-ans.fixmsg
!!!
wc  rn-ans.fixmsg | sed 's/^X//' | diff -b $temp - >$dtemp
if [ -s $dtemp ]
then echo "Ouch [diff of wc output]:" ; cat $dtemp
else echo "No problems found."
fi
exit 0