On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:14:48AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Chris --
>
> Excuse me if this sounnds dumb, but...
>
> ...and then Chris Green said...
> % to TRUE only when forwarding mail? I.e. I don't want to see/edit the
> % headers when I'm composing and replying to mail normally but I *do*
> % want to be able to edit the headers directly when I'm forwarding mail.
>
> ... why would you want to edit the headers on your surrounding mail
> message when you forward something? Wouldn't you instead want to edit
> the headers of the message you're forwarding? If that's the case, then
> look into $nomime_fwd and maybe $*weed* and/or $*prune* to put the
> forwarded message into the body of your new email and get all of the
> headers with it for you to edit.
>
I only want to edit headers when forwarding mail because my most
frequent use of it is to forward UCE to a postmaster/abuse address
somewhere. It's easier to set the To: address *after* the forwarded
mail has appeared in my editor because it's only then that I can see
all the headers in the message.
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