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Re: How to Configure header information

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From: Bill Petro - GSG Marketing
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1989 18:19
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[On Jul 26,  7:30am, Tony Tran wrote:
> Subject: How to Configure header information
>
>How does one tailor the Header information in Mush?
>Specifically, what I would like to see in my mail message is:
>
>Organization:  Excelan Corp.
>Group:	CIS
>Telephone: xxxxxxxx
>
>I know that Elm can do it with a file $HOME/.elm/elmheaders,
>but I wonder how one could accomplish the same with Mush.
>
>Your help/pointer would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Tony Tran
>UUCP:	{leadsv,versatc,cae780,mtxinu}!excelan!tran    Tony Tran
>Barrnet: tran@excelan.com  
>Tel: 	 (408) 473-8723
>
>-- End of excerpt from Tony Tran]

This is what I do in my $HOME/.mushrc file:

#
# mail headers for outgoing mail
#
my_hdr Mail-Stop: "..... 12-33"
my_hdr Extension: "..... x65568"
my_hdr Phone-Number: ".. (415) 336-5568"
my_hdr Organization: ".. Sun GSG Marketing"

This works particularly well if you work for Sun Microsystems :-)
Note however, for reasons unknown to modern man, that these are displayed in my
headers in reverse order.  So you would do something like this:

my_hdr Telephone: "xxxxxxxx"
my_hdr Group: "CIS"
my_hdr Organization: "Excelan Corp."

Note, that white space is eaten up, including tabs.  So if you want to left
justify your headers, you must use some delimiter.  I use dots (universally
available on most computer keyboards ;-), but you might use "_____" as well.

Bill Petro - Sun Microsystems GSG Marketing
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Subject: Re: How to Configure header information
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