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- From: ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: elm wish list
- Message-ID: <148@eiffel.eiffel.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 18:40:21 GMT
- References: <BxGsGJ.I58@chinet.chi.il.us> <piggy.721631964@newsroom.utas.edu.au> <1992Nov13.084305.25853@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Sender: ram@eiffel.com
- Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA
- Lines: 36
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- Quoting cbarkley@alex (The DarkMage) from comp.mail.elm:
- >I do not agree with the complaint about the header editor; I think it is
- >a useful and well done feature. My complaint is that I would like to see
- >the elmheaders file read in when you "finish" a letter and go to the send
- >prompt. Then, they would be filled into the header editor fields where
- >they could be overridden, altered, SEEN, etc. I recall that this has come
- >up before, and it was reported that doing this would weaken some other
- >feature, but I think it would definitely be a useful one.
-
- Why not go a step further and allow (say in "expert" mode only) the user
- to really edit the headers of the message (by stuffing them into a
- temporary file and launching an editor like vi)?
-
- Of course, if the user continues and types the beginning of a message after
- an End-of-header line, a warning should be issued and the text discarded.
-
- At that point, there would be no reason to not provide 'post-filters', i.e.
- the message (or header/body) would be piped to an external program before
- actual delivery to the transport layer. The equivalent of the filter program,
- but for sent messages. (With MH, this is quite easy to achieve, since you
- may specify your own posting program, which will ultimately call MH's post,
- of course).
-
- Another thing which would be Real Nice(tm) would be to make ELM understand
- pseudo-headers like MH's Fcc: to force a Folder Carbon Copy -- In that case
- however, ELM should generate the Message-Id line itself or there would be
- a discrepency between the sent message and the one stored.
-
- Those are the three main reasons why I use MH to actually handle my mail, but
- use ELM to review old folders, since a screen interface is much better than
- the "scan; show; next" MH process...
- --
- Raphael Manfredi <ram@eiffel.com>
- Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
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