Re: Digest Reading Readmail Tip
From: rex (rex@ptw.com)
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:15:14 -0700
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 11:53:23PM -0700, Howard Schwartz wrote:
>
> Readmail's revision history notes that ``delete does not work for soup
> headers''. But Yarn's headers are ``soup-like''. What to do? I discovered
> that if you turn of (in its message type setup screen) the ``use soup
> headers'' checkbox, and specify a yarn header as a non-soup header with
> first line something like:
>
> *Received: from*
>
> Readmail can read the headers fine and can delete individual messages
> without error. Thats my tip. With some torture I even got readmail to
> mail out reply mail and posts and add them to Yarn's replies.zip soup
> packet. So the two are coexisting nicely for now.
Thanks for the tip.
I used Readmail quite a few years ago, and wrote a wrapper package to
make it into a complete mail reader. Then I found Yarn (.66?), and
dropped the project. IIRC, to get it to post, I had to write a TSR
program that watched the screen. At least I had to use the TSR to do
_something_ with it.
Now I use Mutt, which is a bit like what Yarn might have become if Chin
had released the source code.
-rex