RNMAIL(1) General Commands Manual RNMAIL(1) NAME Rnmail - 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 modi- fied 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 "Rn- mail -h %h %A". You can also modify the the MAILHEADER environment vari- able to change the header file that [t]rn passes to Rnmail. ENVIRONMENT DOTDIR 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 EDITOR The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined. Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi. HOME Your home directory. Default: $LOGDIR LOGDIR Your home directory if HOME is undefined. LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined. Default: value of "whoami". MAILRECORD If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished mes- sage will be appended. Default: message not saved NEWSORG Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file con- taining 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. ORGANIZATION Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file con- taining the name of your organization. Default: whatever your news administrator chose. REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to insert into your mes- sage. Default: header line not inserted. USER Your login name. Default: $LOGNAME VISUAL The editor you want to use. Default: $EDITOR FILES $DOTDIR/.letter $DOTDIR/.signature $DOTDIR/.mail_sig ~/dead.letter SEE ALSO trn(1), rn(1), Pnews(1), mail(1) DIAGNOSTICS BUGS Uses /bin/mail in the absence of sendmail. LOCAL RNMAIL(1)
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