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include "$book/mh.php"; includeHeader('mmbwm.html', 'verfor.html'); ?>The messages you send with comp don't need to have fields like cc: and Subject: in the headers. As long as you have To:, your message should get there. (The other header fields should follow rules in RFC 822.)
For instance, here's a program that receptionists might want. It uses prompter to take phone and other messages, then sends them via email. This version of comp is called msg.
The date, time, and person who took the message are added automatically by MH. The draft template file uses Fcc: to automatically keep a copy of all messages sent. msg is nice for messages to busy people who aren't at their desks but are close to terminals -- or who can't check their mailboxes for slips of paper -- or who want to track their messages electronically.
The messages look something like this:
% show
...
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 12:34:56 PST
From: receptionist's username
To: loisl
Subject: While You Were Out...
X-Person: Betty Smith
X-Of: Kumquat Associates
X-Phone: (619)234-5678
X-Called: x
X-Please_call: x
--------
About your new cheese straightener.
To make msg, follow these steps:
To:
Fcc: msgs
Subject: While You Were Out...
X-URGENT:
X-Person:
X-Of:
X-Phone:
X-Called:
X-Came_to_see_you:
X-Wants_to_see_you:
X-Please_call:
X-Will_call:
X-Returned_your_call:
--------
As prompter shows each empty field from that file, the
receptionist can either fill it in with a name or number,
type x after it (to just include the field in the
message), or leave it blank (and
prompter will delete the field). This is a handy way to
use prompter.
Add this entry to your MH profile, or add the arguments to your alias or function:
msg: -form msgcomps -editor prompter
#! /bin/sh
msgs=`pick -list -subject "While You Were Out"` || exit
for msg in $msgs
do
show $msg
# If the echo command prints: "-n q quits...", then remove the "#"
# character from the first line below and add it to the next line:
# echo "q quits, r removes, anything else continues: \c"
echo -n "q quits, r removes, anything else continues: "
read ans
case "$ans" in
q) break ;;
r) rmm $msg ;;
esac
done
(You can also get that script from this book's online archive.
It's at
examples/mh/bin/getmsgs.) UNIX has two versions
of the echo command. The getmsgs script can be set
up for either version. The comments in the script explain what
to do. See the Chapter
Introduction to UNIX Programming with
MH for help with shell programming.
To: joeb_msgs
Other users can send Joe's phone messages to his special
address, even if they don't use the msg program. Then it
will be easy for Joe to find his messages with MH tools
like pick:
% pick -to joeb_msgs ...
You could make a little shell alias or shell program named
something like
showmsgs that does this:
show `pick -to ${USER}_msgs -list`
The Section
Passing Message Numbers with
Backquotes and the Chapter
Introduction to UNIX Programming with
MH have hints.