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Re: Help with bind [forwarding mail]

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From: Greg A. Woods
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 20:11
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In article <it1.669433652@Isis.MsState.Edu> it1@Isis.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) writes:
> 
>   I'm having trouble getting mush to forward mail.. Here're my attempts:
> 
>   :bind-macro f '[linemode]mail -f . [getline]'
>   :bind-macro F '[linemode]mail -ef . [getline]'
> 
>   For the first macro, mush insists on adding the headers
>   "Resent-From", etc to the header..  What I would prefer is changing
>   the "From:" header to my address instead, and quote the original
>   message including the headers.  I believe this is how nn does it..

Uh, it does that because that's what it was designed to do.  This is
the way RFC-822 specifies that forwarded mail be identified.

>   Is what I'm trying to do possible, without mucking with the source?
>   Thanks in advance..

And without mucking with RFC-822 compatability?  I doubt it!  :-)

BTW, binding 'f' screws up the default.  What do you use as an
alternate for <folder>?
-- 
							Greg A. Woods
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Help with bind [forwarding mail]
Message-ID: <1991Mar24.201120.14087@eci386.uucp>
Date: 24 Mar 91 20:11:20 GMT
References: <it1.669433652@Isis.MsState.Edu>
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Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
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