Re: mailx: a lot of new mail

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 09/17/03 

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:07:30 GMT

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:07:12 -0500, Ed Morton <mortonAVOIDINGSPAM@Lucent.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Very nice. It's quite a bit more extensive than the one I have.
>>
>>
>> I put "set sign="blah-blah" in my ~/.mailrc, but when I tried the ~a ~A
>> mailx said they were unknown...
>
> Works for me. I'm assuming the initial " in your message above wasn't really
> present in your .mailrc.

Yes. Meant to enclose the whole thing in double quotes.

 mailx -V shows my version as:
>
> mailx version 5.0 Tue Oct 9 14:37:47 PDT 2001
>

That option doesn't work on my version. Neither does --version.

But it is fairly new, and mailx, coming with Debian 3.0

> Remember to exit mailx and re-start it after making any .mailrc changes.
>

Okay

> Here's what my old .mailrc looked like:
>
> if r
> cd /home/morton/mail
> endif
>
> alternates morton@lucent.com Edward.Morton
>
> set from allnet append asksub crt dot keep save showto page optimize
> set record=outbox
> set toplines=10
> set EDITOR=/bin/ed
> set VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi
> set SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh
> set iprompt="I> "
> set sign="\nCheers,\n\n\tEd.\n\n\tmorton@lucent.com"
> set Sign="\nRegards,\n\n\tEd Morton\n\tmorton@lucent.com"
> set folder=mail
> set outfolder
> set cmd="mailprint"
> set forwardbracket=
> set appenddeadletter
>

Copied for reference

>
>> The sig doesn't show up when I include the message in the reply with ~m
>
> Not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that the signature that was on the
> message you're inserting gets cut off or something else? If you mean that the
> header information is cut off, use "~M" instead of "~m".
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed.
>

Well, when I hit r to reply, I then hit ~m to include the original letter
in the reply, the ~e to bring it up in my $EDITOR.

The sig doesn't appear regardless. I CAN include an empty file with a
sig at the bottom, which work. Simple enough with files s1 s2 s3 :-)

~a
Unknown tilde escape.

found a tutorial at

http://www.cc.nao.ac.jp/vppman/HTML/C/ug/ug12/ug000445.htm

Cheers,

Alan C 

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