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Article #719Re: Help with bind [forwarding mail]
From: Greg A. Woods
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1991 20:11
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>?
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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> Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc. Lines: 27