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 modified 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 "Rnmail -h %h %A". You can also modify the the
MAILHEADER environment variable 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
message will be appended.
Default: message not saved
NEWSORG Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file
containing 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
containing the name of your organization.
Default: whatever your news administrator chose.
REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to insert into your
message.
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)