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Re: dead.letter capability in VM

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From: kyle
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1991 18:42
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Joe Wells writes:
 > In article <9108121800.AA05212@wendy-fate.UU.NET> kyle@uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones) writes:
 > 
 >    Unfortunately, MUAs like Berkeley Mail and MTAs like sendmail do
 >    different things with dead.letter.  UCB Mail just puts the body into
 >    dead.letter when you abort a message.  sendmail outputs the headers and
 >    a UUCP From line along with the body.  With the latter format you can
 >    use vm-visit-foldwer and visit dead.letter like any other folder, edit
 >    and resend any messages you wish.
 > 
 > Is there a command to resend a message like this?  That is, a command
 > which sets up a mail buffer, inserts the body of the viewed message as the
 > body of the message to be sent, and inserts the headers of the viewed
 > message as the headers of the message to be sent?
 > 
 > None of the existing commands seem to do quite what is wanted here.

vm-resend-message comes the closest.  The Resent- headers that
are added might be confusing, though.  I use workarounds; either
`z' and then some quick editing, or setting up a region and
"| sendmail addr ..."
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From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net
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Subject: Re: dead.letter capability in VM
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