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. 

The -h form is used when invoked from 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 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.

HOMEYour 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.

USERYour login name.  Default: $LOGNAME

VISUALThe editor you want to use.  Default: $EDITOR

FILES

$DOTDIR/.letter
~/dead.letter

SEE ALSO

rn(1), Pnews(1), mail(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

Uses /bin/mail in the absence of sendmail. 

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