Re: Replying by email to the newsfeed
>From ajlewis2@intac.com Wed Jul 23 10:33:56 2003
X-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 03:40:08 PDT (newsmaster1.news.pas.earthlink.net)
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:50:13PM +0200, Anthony Rowe wrote:
>
> I save articles I wish to keep or reply to (using 'o' in slrn) to the
> default file (probably ~/News/Linux.debian.user). Then browse this
> file using my MUA ('c', '?', and then to '../', and '/News' etc. in
> mutt). Saved articles are in mailbox format so mutt will display them
> the same as a saved email. Reply as usual editing the To: field as
> needed.
>
> Keeping mail and news separate helps me to avoid confusing the two
> (which could be quite embarressing in some situations :). Also, any
> tweaks I may make to the way I handle my mail in the future will be
> preserved for my debian-user mail. I think it is confusing enough to
> read the list as news and post to it as mail without further
> complicating matters by using my newsreader to send mail to the list.
> YMMV
>
> Tony
Wow! Thanks, Tony. This is a lot easier, because I can use the alias I
have to change the To: It will also give me a copy in my Sent mail folder.
After I read the news and save what I want, I just go to the News directory
and do 'mutt -f Linu [TAB]' and I've got it. I see that I have saved a few
things previously in that folder. LOoks like I forgot about them. :-)
And like you said, this will keep them separate from my other mail. Great
tip!
Anita
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Now we are getting someplace! Nice job Tony and Anita, try THIS:
Put this function in your .bashrc:
ldu () {
echo "Enter Subject:" ;
read nn ;
mutt debian-user@lists.debian.org -s "$nn" -i .SLRN/News/misc/linux.debian.user ;
rm .SLRN/News/misc/linux.debian.user ;
}
(note that this is the default save on MY system)
Now I just cut the subject, switch to another window, enter ldu, paste the
subject in and it's ready to go...Very nice. Copy saved to mutt automatically.
Alan
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