NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/mail/elm/3895

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From: [e-mail] (Richard H. Gumpertz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: "reply" and alias inconsistencies?
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Date: 30 Dec 92 13:17:24 GMT
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Organization: Computer Problem Solving, Leawood, Kansas, USA
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (J. Philip Miller) writes:
>I agree it would be useful for elm to allow you to override the Reply-to:
>header without retyping the address, but..........

Gee, RDMAIL, the MUA we used way back when under TOPS-10 had a neat feature
that might be appropriate here: it had the equivalent of a few built-in
(one-letter) aliases.  Maybe these could be added to ELM?

When generating a reply or forward, it would be nice if the alias "f" were
expanded to the "From:" list of the message being replied or forwarded, "t"
to the "To:" list, "r" to the "Reply-To:" list (or "From:" list if there was
no "Reply-To" in the message), "s" to the "Sender:" list, and "c" to the
"CC:" list.  RdMail also had "x" for the "Remailed-To:" list and "y" for the
"Remailed-From:" list, but those may well be obsolete.

This would, for example, allow one to Reply to a message and specify "c,t"
for the CC field of the reply.  Perhaps not a wonderful example, but I am
sure you can come up with others.  In any case, it sure would save a lot of
typing.  I have often wanted such a feature when editing address lists in
Elm.

I suppose elm's M(ail) command could also accept these aliases, pulling the
addresses from the "current" message.

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