Subject: Re: tin : changing From: line
To: sandy@herring.org
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 22:36:58 +0100 (MET)
From: Urko Lusa <ulusa@frodo.com>
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In article <slrn5ej7ie.jh5.sandy@kelly.teleport.com>, you wrote:
 
>BTW, slrn allows you to set the From: header line (as you can see
>in this posting :-). That's one of several reasons I switched from
>tin. The only thing I miss about tin is being able to use my elm
>alias file to do forwards of news articles. I have yet to figure out
>how to do that with slrn *sigh*.
 
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, but it's very useful
for me. I got it from n.s.r. some time ago.
 
 
--------------------- newselm --------------------
#!/bin/sh
 
TMPMAIL=$HOME/.newselm.$$
 
trap "rm -f $TMPMAIL; exit 1" 0 1 2 15
 
myexec=`awk -v q=\' '
  BEGIN{header=1}
  /^To: /{
	to=substr($0,5)
	sub("[(].*[)]","",to)
	sub("[ \t]","",to)
	sub(".*<","",to)
	sub(">.*","",to)
	gsub(q,"",to)
  }
  /^Subject: /{subj=substr($0,10)}
  /^$/ && header==1 {
	gsub(q,"",subj)
	header=0
	printf "elm -s %s%s%s %s%s%s", q,subj,q,q,to,q
	next
  }
  header==0 {print >tmpmail}
' tmpmail=$TMPMAIL -`
 
eval $myexec <$TMPMAIL || elm -s "newselm failed!" `whoami` <$TMPMAIL
rm -f $TMPMAIL
trap "" 0
exit 0
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In your .slrnrc, define
set sendmail_command  "/path/newselm"
then you can forward the article to any alias you have defined with elm.
 
-- 
Saludos, Urko.