Re: resend - decode???
From: Allen Scott-Thoennes (sthoenna@efn.org)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 13:44:45 -0700
In article <E+sH0gzkgCcB092yn@efn.org>,
sthoenna@efn.org (Allen Scott-Thoennes) wrote:
>In article <QDlH0MlOYwoM092yn@swipnet.se>,
>robert.kristensen@swipnet.se (Robert Kristensen) wrote:
>>Since i've never used the feature before, i never noticed it. I tried to
>>resend a posting with B and got a message saying, "There is nothing to
>>decode". I run 0.92 and was wondering if i've done something wrong or
>>if i missed something in the setup?
>
>I think you might be confused. 'B' is a *Pine* command to resend a message,
>leaving the original To, From, etc. headers intact and adding a Resent-From,
>Resent-To, Resent-Date, and Resent-Message-ID to reflect the new source and
>destination of the message.
>
>While this is a great feature, I don't think it is a Yarn feature.
>In yarn, 'B' extracts a uuencoded file from the message.
>You could use 'm' to forward a message, but it mucks up the headers.
Oops...in a mail message, you can indeed use the 'E' command to resend a
message. It properly uses the Resent-From and Resent-To headers.
I just never saw it 'cause I mostly just use psuedo-newsgroups. It
would be really nice to have this feature for "news" too.