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- From: root@rz.uni-konstanz.de (Z. Horvat)
- Subject: Re: Running Metamail as root
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.080904.163654@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
- Sender: usenet@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de
- Reply-To: root@rz.uni-konstanz.de
- Organization: Rechenzentrum Universitaet Konstanz
- References: <kePKWX_753wE44VFB5@gazelle.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:09:04 GMT
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- Many thanks to the person who suggested either to modify the sources
- or to build a fake shellscript around metamail. Sorry, i can`t remember
- his name. Now it works as expected.
-
- One thing makes me still wonder. The pushbutton is still there, in many
- messages, even in messages i have written myself. I keep them in
- a folder named "ougoing". Selecting this folder often shows these messages
- with just a push button in them, which i have to press to see the contents.
- Is this the way it should work ?
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- Another thing, which i find sometimes annoying, is the sometimes too strict
- type of address validation. E.g. Person Abc Def, which is only reachable via
- a gateway, would be adressed like that:
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- To:@xyz.org:Abc.Def@blah.blah.blah.xyz.org
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- Adressing this person that way with elm works and the message gets delivered.
- Using messages, it complains that the adress is not valid. In fact, the adress
- is valid, but messages just thinks so. Wouldn┤t it be a more user friendly way
- if messages would warn and ask ?
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- One other thing that i miss, is to build aliases or nicknames "on the fly". Let┤s
- say a menu option which allows me to extract the mail adress from the current
- message i┤m in and assign a alias to it. Maybe this function is already there and
- i┤ve just missed something ?
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- Z. Horvat
- Rechenzentrum Universitaet Konstanz
- 7750 Konstanz
- +49(0)7531-88-2405
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- root@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
- rzhorv@nyx.uni-konstanz.de
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