xenial (1) trn3-Rnmail.1.gz

Provided by: trn_3.6-24build1_amd64 bug

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.

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