Thanks Paul, The problem is that I don't want to bounce the complete message; first I want to strip the failure notification part. Regards, Luis
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:16:29PM -0400, Paul Hoffman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:58:05PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > > Due to a misconfiguration in my mail server, I sent several messages > > that were not delivered but were sent back to me enclosed in a failure > > notification . Now that I have fixed the problem I want to > > send those messages again. What is the best procedure to do it? Does > > mutt have something similar to the emacs function > > 'rmail-retry-failure' to strip away the failure notification of a > > returned message and resend the original message? > > That sounds like what mutt calls a "bounce". From the manual: > > | 7. Forwarding and Bouncing Mail > | > | Bouncing and forwarding let you send an existing message to recipients > | that you specify. Bouncing a message sends a verbatim copy of a > | message to alternative addresses as if they were the message's > | original recipients specified in the Bcc header. Forwarding a message, > | on the other hand, allows you to modify the message before it is > | resent (for example, by adding your own comments). Bouncing is done > | using the <bounce> function and forwarding using the <forward> > | function bound to "b" and "f" respectively. > > > Regards, > > Luis > > HTH, > > Paul. > > -- > Paul Hoffman <[email protected]>
