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In article <Bv74Cr.82w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens) writes:
>Nope.  They added an easy way to play a sound when new mail comes in, and  
>changed the look of some of the icons a little, but otherwise, no new  
>functionality.

I wish they'd make it more stable.  Frequently the app bombs when sending
mail with a 'deallocate' failure error message.  And for me the PostScript
for the application gets all screwed up, so the window's title bars become
the first character only if the real title, and the text on the buttons gets
rotated and/or skewed and/or totally off window.

>So, is this yet another place where NeXT is waiting for 3rd-party apps to
>give us things that we often use in mailing one another like:

>* properly reformatting and quoting text when replying

Terminal Services is a nice workaround for that.

>* signature insertion (both RTF [for NeXTmail] and ASCII [for Non-NeXTmail])

'twould be nice.

>* recognition of uuencoded and shar'ed material ala NewsGrazer (because not  
>everyone can send NeXTmail)

How about modules?

>These three things are pretty small.  It's annoying to have to resort to some
>other app or service to get things like this done (I haven't seen an app to
>do the third thing).  I wouldn't mind using Terminal services, but the ones
>supplied don't seem to work for quoting (as advertised) when I highlight a
>section of text in a Compose window and choose the reformat and reply service
>item.

The trick to get the formatting right is to remove the > that's already
there.  I think something like 'sed -s#^.*>## | fmt -79 75' will do the
trick.  It worked for me when I first tried it at work.  Alas, my CD drive
hasn't come yet so I can't verify that for sure.

>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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