From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 20:17:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E030D37B400 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:17:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16769 invoked by uid 100); 26 Mar 2002 04:17:09 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15519.63044.482223.243209@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:17:08 -0600 To: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: Re: The core mail client application In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.49 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , Joe & Fhe Barbish typed: > I am playing with the FBSD's included mail client application > trying to learn how it works. Why? It's a very primitive UMA, especially when compared to some of the alternatives in the ports tree. > When I'm composing a new email message entering text into the body > of the message, it's time to stop for the day I want to get out of > the message create mode, not send the message and them start up > again on that email the next day. I don't believe that's a supported feature of mail. > The only the only 2 options is ctl + d on > a blank line to leave enter text mode and send the message > or ~q to leave enter text mode and save message to mbox. My man page doesn't say anything about ~q saving to mbox. It saves it to dead.letter. You might try starting a new message, and using ~r to read in dead.letter. You'll have to delete the headers and fix the subject, though. > The > next day I can mail -f to open mbox edit message number to > continue on with the creating the message body text. When I am > done editing the message, it just replaces the same message in > the mbox file. I can not see any command to just send message or > resend message. I have read and reread the man page many times > and can not find a answer. > > Is there a way in mail to send a existing message or resend a message? If you've actually got it doing that, ~f will read a messages from mbox into the letter being composed, and strip the headers. You could try that. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message