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- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Action-Header-Field
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.005837.29195@Celestial.COM>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:58:37 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.150505.10183@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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- In <1992Sep14.150505.10183@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> johannes@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Johannes Viegener) writes:
-
- >Hello folks,
-
- :could someone please tell me the function of the Action-Header-Field.
- :Is it possible to include special commands in this field, or is it
- :just an informational message for the recipient of the mail.
-
- I use it when sending faxes from my mail system to execute an
- arbitrary command (usually xroff) to process the text before the
- fax is sent.
-
- I use Chip Salzenberg's deliver MDA to divert e-mail to the fax
- delivery system. When an Action: line is found in the header it
- is taken to be a call to xroff (a troff implementation) to format
- the body of the document into a tiff file which is then sent by
- the fax daemons. If there is no Action: header it just uses an
- ascii->tiff conversion.
-
- Bill
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