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- From: davy@ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Curry)
- Subject: Re: forw & subject lines
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.135236.6391@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1993Jan21.171431.19670@hemlock.cray.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:52:36 GMT
- Lines: 64
-
- In article <1993Jan21.171431.19670@hemlock.cray.com>, ant@palm21.cray.com (Tony Jones) writes:
- |> Using 'forw' is there any way to propagate the 'Subject' line of the message
- |> you are enclosing up to the Subject line of the message you are going to
- |> send ?
- |>
- |> For example, if I receive a message with Subject line 'foobar' I would like
- |> to forward this out and have the Subject line of the message I send out
- |> become 'foobar (fwd)'
-
- You can do it this way:
-
- 1. In your personal bin or whatever, symbolically link "forw" to "repl".
-
- 2. Make a file in your "Mail" directory called "components.forw" or some
- such, containing:
-
- To: \n\
- Cc: \n\
- %<{subject}Subject: [%(lit)%(pers{from})%<(nonnull)%|%{from}%>: %{subject}]\n%|Subject: \n%>\
- Fcc: outbox\n\
- Bcc: \n\
- --------
-
- (The "Subject" line above should be all one line; don't let your newsreader
- break it.)
-
- 3. Make another file in your "Mail" directory called "mhl.forw" or some
- such, containing:
-
- width=80,overflowtext=,overflowoffset=0
- leftadjust,compress,compwidth=9
- :
- :------- Forwarded Message
- :
- From:
- To:
- Cc:
- Date:formatfield="%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(tws{text})%>"
- Subject:
- :
- body:nocomponent,overflowoffset=0,noleftadjust,nocompress
- :
- :------- End of Forwarded Message
-
- You need this now to add the "Forwarded Message" lines around the original,
- since you're not using the real "forw" anymore.
-
- 4. Edit your .mh_profile and add:
-
- forw: -filter mhl.forw -form components.forw
-
- The reason you have to do it this way is that "repl" is the only MH program
- that lets you grab fields out of the replied-to (forwarded) message and put
- them in the new message's headers.
-
- --Dave
-
- P.S. - The above components file will put the person's name and subject in
- the new subject line. For example, if I ran it on your original
- message, I'd get:
-
- Subject: [Tony Jones: forw & subject lines]
-
- Of course, you can change the line to do "foobar (fwd)" like you want.
-