From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 21:22:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mango-bay.com (mail.mango-bay.com [208.206.15.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169B137B405 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from barbish ([63.70.155.23]) by mail.mango-bay.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52377U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id com; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:22:08 -0500 From: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: RE: The core mail client application Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 00:22:06 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <15519.63044.482223.243209@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal 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 You wrote "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 man page is out dated and wrong. I tested it and ~q saves the message in the mbox. You wrote "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." This was the push I needed. You gave me the idea of how to do it. Start mail -f and once to the mail command line enter mail user_account this user_account would be the same one I was creating yesterday at quitting time and saved to mbox using the ~q command. Once I get to adding the body on the new message I use ~m message number of saved message to copy the body of the saved message, then enter to get to the blank line, then ~e command to go into my default editor and away I go continuing my message. When finished, I exit the editor and I am back at the message blank line. A ctl + D keys to exit and send the message. Thanks for your idea and help Joe -----Original Message----- From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm-dated-1017548228.ca7f43@mired.org] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:17 PM To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSDQ Subject: Re: The core mail client application 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