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RNMAIL(1)              DragonFly General Commands Manual             RNMAIL(1)

NAME
       Rnmail - a program for replying via mail

SYNOPSIS
       Rnmail destination_list
         or
       Rnmail -h headerfile [oldarticle]
         or
       Rnmail

DESCRIPTION
       Rnmail is a friendly interface for mailing replies to news articles.
       It will ask several questions, then allow you to enter your letter, and
       then mail it off.  If you type h and a carriage return at any point,
       Rnmail will tell you what it wants to know.

       If you put a .signature file in your home directory, Rnmail will append
       it to your message after you are done editing it.  If you prefer to see
       your signature while you are editing, rename your .signature file to be
       .mail_sig and it will be appended before you begin to edit.  Note that
       both .mail_sig and .signature obey the setting of DOTDIR unless Rnmail
       was modified to take the .signature appending out of Rnmail's control
       and that if both files exist you get two signatures appended.

       The -h form is used when invoked from trn or rn.  If your editor can
       edit multiple files, and you want the article to which you are replying
       to show up as an alternate file, define the environment variable
       MAILPOSTER as "Rnmail -h %h %A".  You can also modify the the
       MAILHEADER environment variable to change the header file that [t]rn
       passes to Rnmail.

ENVIRONMENT
       DOTDIR  If defined, specifies a place other than your home directory
               where 'dot' files may be stored.  This is primarily for
               accounts which are shared by more than one person.

               Default: $HOME

       EDITOR  The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.

               Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually
               vi.

       HOME    Your home directory.

               Default: $LOGDIR

       LOGDIR  Your home directory if HOME is undefined.

       LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined.

               Default: value of "whoami".

       MAILRECORD
               If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished
               message will be appended.

               Default: message not saved

       NEWSORG Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file
               containing the name of your organization. (For use at
               organizations where the ORGANIZATION environmental variable is
               in use for other purposes). If both NEWSORG and ORGANIZATION
               are set, NEWSORG will override ORGANIZATION.

               Default: whatever your news administrator chose.

       ORGANIZATION
               Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file
               containing the name of your organization.

               Default: whatever your news administrator chose.

       REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to insert into your
               message.

               Default: header line not inserted.

       USER    Your login name.

               Default: $LOGNAME

       VISUAL  The editor you want to use.

               Default: $EDITOR

FILES
       $DOTDIR/.letter
       $DOTDIR/.signature
       $DOTDIR/.mail_sig
       ~/dead.letter

SEE ALSO
       trn(1), rn(1), Pnews(1), mail(1)

DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
       Uses /bin/mail in the absence of sendmail.

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