Tip for cc or bcc into a file (BSD Mail)
Snoopy
seifert at mako.UUCP
Sat Mar 23 13:19:16 AEST 1985
In article <1516 at watcgl.UUCP> (Michael W. Herman) writes:
>> If you're using Berkeley Mail, and you want your cc to go into
>> a file rather than to a user (such as yourself, if all you'll do
>> then is save it in a file), put in the file name with a /, e.g.
>> Cc: mail/joe
>
>I use this quite a bit but have complained about the fact that the pathnames
>are left in the outgoing mail msg. If the recipient of such a msg replies
>using mail's *reply* command, they also try to mail to a file of the
>same pathname (unless they explicitly remove it from the Cc: line).
>
>Do people think these pathnames should be stripped out of outgoing msgs
>or left in?
>
>p.s. I know I could use Bcc but I don't.
What about the environment variables $folder and $record ? Also,
look up the 'F' command, as opposed to the 'R' command, and the
-F command line argument.
I definitely miss Berkeley Mail. :-( MH-Mail has *major* problems.
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