Hey Richard,
I agree with you...
From: Richard Toohey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OT: Mail was Re: Changing From headers in mail on a whim?
On 19/06/2008, at 1:04 PM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
I was wondering if you guys could clarify
something for me. I looked heirloom mailx (nail)
very carefully and it looks like mail on
steroids.
[...]
I do not think there is any reason to expect base to
have all the features that you need when you first get
started, unless the features that you need a
sufficiently general that they are going to apply to a
wide variety of users. I can't see the above
recommendations as sufficiently general, even though I
would in fact use something like fetchmail and metamail.
I really think that you are only talking about adding
metamail and fetchmail, which can be used together with
sendmail, spamassassin and mail to accomplish the above
goals.
But - moving back to your original email, and being able to edit
"From:" - it does look as though Heirloom does provide code that
might be applied to base if so desired (I will have a look
myself at doing so for learning.)
[...]
~H Edit the message header fields 'From:', 'Reply-To:',
'Sender:', and 'Organization:' in the same manner as described
for ~h. The default values for these fields originate from the
from, replyto, and ORGANIZATION variables. If this tilde command
has been used, changing the variables has no effect on the
current message anymore.
I think it would be interesting to see about adding some simple options
in from something like Heirloom to accomplish these goals. The ~H option
seems like a good one to add. In fact, maybe it isn't so hard to add
this?
Sincerely,
Aaron Hsu
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