Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1+some 2/3/84; site dual.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!dual!fair From: fair@dual.UUCP (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.mail,net.mail.headers Subject: Re: user-editable mail headers Message-ID: <772@dual.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 17:42:27 EDT Article-I.D.: dual.772 Posted: Sat Aug 18 17:42:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 04:12:41 EDT References: <1293@ihuxl.UUCP> <969@ulysses.UUCP> Organization: Dual Systems, Berkeley, CA Lines: 11 The recmail program from the netnews distribution does similar things. Standard procedure is to make a prototype header for the user, fire up an editor, and when it exits, hand the text to recmail. It picks out the To: and Cc: fields and mails off the letter with /bin/mail, which will accept *anything* as input. Voila! Editable headers. Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucb-arpa.ARPA dual!fair@BERKELEY.ARPA {ihnp4,ucbvax,hplabs,decwrl,cbosgd,sun,nsc,apple,pyramid}!dual!fair Dual Systems Corporation, Berkeley, California