RNMAIL (1)
a program for replying via mail
SYNOPSIS
Rnmail destination_list
or
Rnmail -h headerfile [oldarticle]
or
Rnmail
DESCRIPTION
Rnmail is a friendly interface for mailing replies to news articles.
It will ask several questions, then allow you to enter your letter,
and then mail it off.
If you type h and a carriage return at any point,
Rnmail
will tell you what it wants to know.
If you put a
.signature
file in your home directory, Rnmail will append it
to your message after you are done editing it.
If you prefer to see your signature while you are editing, rename your
.signature file to be .mail_sig and it will be appended before you
begin to edit.
Note that both .mail_sig and .signature obey the setting of DOTDIR unless
Rnmail was modified to take the .signature appending out of Rnmail's control
and that if both files exist you get two signatures appended.
The -h form is used when invoked from
trn
or
rn .
If your editor can edit multiple files, and you want the article to which
you are replying to show up as an alternate file, define the environment
variable MAILPOSTER as \*(L"Rnmail -h %h %A\*(R".
You can also modify the the MAILHEADER environment variable to change the
header file that
[t]rn
passes to Rnmail.
ENVIRONMENT
If defined, specifies a place other than your home directory where 'dot' files
may be stored.
This is primarily for accounts which are shared by more than one person.
Default: $HOME
The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.
Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi.
Your home directory.
Default: $LOGDIR
Your home directory if HOME is undefined.
Your login name, if USER is undefined.
Default: value of \*(L"whoami\*(R".
If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished message will
be appended.
Default: message not saved
Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file containing the
name of your organization. (For use at organizations where the ORGANIZATION
environmental variable is in use for other purposes). If both NEWSORG and
ORGANIZATION are set, NEWSORG will override ORGANIZATION.
Default: whatever your news administrator chose.
Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file containing the
name of your organization.
Default: whatever your news administrator chose.
The contents of a \*(L"Reply-To:\*(R" header line to insert into your message.
Default: header line not inserted.
Your login name.
Default: $LOGNAME
The editor you want to use.
Default: $EDITOR
FILES
$DOTDIR/.letter
$DOTDIR/.signature
$DOTDIR/.mail_sig
~/dead.letter
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
Uses /bin/mail in the absence of sendmail.
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