RNMAIL(1)

💌 RNMAIL(1) — the one where you reply to news articles like a whole main character

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for Rnmail, aka RNMAIL(1). this is your little bestie for mailing replies to news articles, and honestly? it's giving helpful. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Rnmail — a program for replying via mail 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

three whole vibes, pick your fighter ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so Rnmail is a friendly interface for mailing replies to news articles. it's gonna ask you several questions, then let you write your letter, and then mail it off. that's the whole plot. 🌈

and listen — if at any point you type h and hit a carriage return, Rnmail will tell you what it wants to know. built-in help, no cap. 🫶

now, the signature tea ☕: if you put a .signature file in your home directory, Rnmail will append it to your message after you're done editing it. but if you'd rather see your signature while you're editing, rename your .signature file to .mail_sig and it gets appended before you begin to edit. periodt. 🎀

⚠️ heads up bestie: 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 if both files exist, you get two signatures appended. not a drill. 😭

the -h form is the one that shows up when Rnmail is invoked from trn or rn. so here's the move: if your editor can edit multiple files, and you want the article you're replying to to show up as an alternate file, define the environment variable MAILPOSTER as "Rnmail -h %h %A". iconic behavior honestly. ✨ you can also modify the MAILHEADER environment variable to change the header file that [t]rn passes to Rnmail.

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💖 ENVIRONMENT 💖

your environment variables, your rules (kinda). here's the full rundown, no skips, no skimming 🧚

• 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

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🦋 FILES 🦋

the sacred texts, bestie 📜

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

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

go read these when you're done here, iykyk 💜

• trn(1)
• rn(1)
• Pnews(1)
• mail(1)

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💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

...yeah this section is literally empty. nothing to report. it's giving silence. 🙈

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😭 BUGS 😭

• uses /bin/mail in the absence of sendmail.

that's it, that's the bug. fr fr. 💅

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🎀✨ this lil page came to you from the LOCAL source, filed under RNMAIL(1) — no date on it, so it's lowkey timeless. go reply to some news articles, you absolute icon 👑💖