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Article #9456Re: dead.letter capability in VM
From: kyle
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1991 18:42
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,32d8982dad751f51 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-08-14 19:28:09 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!bug-vm From: kyle@wendy-fate.uu.net Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: Re: dead.letter capability in VM Message-ID: <9108141842.AA20013@wendy-fate.UU.NET> Date: 14 Aug 91 18:42:56 GMT References: <9108110410.AA03013@maverick.uswest.com> <9108112319.AA01174@wren.acs.csulb.edu> <9108112333.AA11081@maverick.uswest.com> <9108121800.AA05212@wendy-fate.UU.NET> <JBW.91Aug13163021@maverick.uswest.com> Sender: bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net Lines: 21