Syntax:
Reply [options]
Reply_Delete [options]
Examples:
r
3 rep +conf
$reply bcc=mmurdock s="New Subject"
Description:
Reply sends a reply to a Saved message. If you
specify a single message reference, MAIL8 looks through your
Saved drawer, finds out who sent you that message, and sends your
reply to that person. If you do not specify a message reference,
MAIL8 sends your reply to the person who sent you the current
Saved message. If you are at end-of-drawer, MAIL8 gives you an
error.
As shown in the examples, options can give characteristics to
your Outbound reply or add information lines.
By default, the Subject information line of your reply will be
the Subject line of the original message with "Re:"
in front of it. For example, if the subject line of the original
message was
Subject: Your Report
the subject line of your reply is
Subject: Re: Your Report
You can get a different subject using the Subject=
option on the Reply command line.
By default, MAIL8 ignores the Cc: line in the
original message. This means that copies are only sent to people
mentioned with explicit CC=user options on the Reply
command line. However, the +All option for Reply
tells MAIL8 to send copies to all the people mentioned in the
original Cc: list as well as to new CC=user
recipients. Even with +All, MAIL8 won't send a copy of
the message to your own userid; if you want to keep a copy, you
have to add a CC= option for yourself.
Because you do not know who received blind copies of the
original message, those people do not receive copies of your
reply. However, you can specify a Bcc: list of your
own using the BlindCarbonCopies= option.
When MAIL8 is ready for the text of your message, it displays
your input prompt if you have set one with Option
InputPrompt=. (See "expl
mail option input" for more details.) MAIL8 then gathers
lines for the text of the message until you enter a line that
only consists of a dot "." followed by
carriage return.
When MAIL8 has created the Outbound message and put the
notification(s) in the correct Unread drawer(s), MAIL8 writes
messages of the form
Message sent to jsmith
for each intended recipient.
Possible Options:
- +All
- sends copies to all the people named in the information
lines at the beginning of the original message including
the sender, people in the To: list, and people
on the Cc: list. You do not receive a copy
yourself (unless you explicitly put your name on the
userid list).
- +AnswerBack
- puts the AnswerBack characteristic on the Outbound
message.
- +Attached_Files
- sends out files that were attached to the original
message. If this option is not specified, attached files
are not sent.
- BlindCarbonCopies=user
- sends a "blind" copy of the message to the
specified user. Other recipients are not told that this
person received a copy of the message. To send blind
copies to several people, specify several BCC=
options, as in
bcc=name1 bcc=name2 ...
- CarbonCopies=user
- sends a copy of the message to the specified user.
Recipients are told that this person received a copy of
the message. To send copies to several people, specify
several CC= options, as in
cc=name1 cc=name2 ...
- COMMent="string"
- attaches a Comments line to the message. This
line appears with the other header lines in the message.
- +Confidential
- puts the Confidential characteristic on the Outbound
message.
- File=filename
- attaches the contents of the given file to your message.
For further information, see "expl
mail attach".
- Keywords="string"
- attaches a Keywords header line to the
message. A Keywords header line is typically
used to list some of the important topics mentioned in
the message.
- Message="string"
- supplies the body of the message directly. In this case,
MAIL8 does not prompt you for the body of the message;
MAIL8 simply uses the supplied string. The Message=
option is useful when your message is very short. Note
that MAIL8 still prompts for a Subject unless you specify
the Subject= argument or have Option
-AskSubject in effect.
- +MUTE
- sends the message without displaying any information
messages. You will not see the usual "Message
sent to user" message, nor will you see any
advisory messages set up by recipients. MAIL8 still
displays error messages. You may wish to use +MUTE
to reduce the amount of output sent to your screen or to
a command file. If you want to determine whether a +MUTE
message was sent successfully, use Summary +Outbound.
- +Registered
- puts the Registered characteristic on the Outbound
message.
- -Registered
- sends an unregistered message. This option is useful if
the +Register_All option is in effect.
- SeNder="string"
- gives additional information about the sender (e.g. full
name instead of just the userid). This overrides any
sender name you may have specified with the Option
SeNder command (see "expl mail option sender").
- Subject="string"
- attaches a new Subject information line to the
message. The string must be enclosed in single or double
quotes if it contains blanks.
- <filename
- obtains the message from the given file instead of
prompting for terminal input.
The Reply_Delete command works like Reply
and takes the same options. The difference is that RD
deletes the message to which you are replying, once the reply has
been sent off. RD is useful for back-and-forth
conversations between people who are both signed on to the
system, since the automatic deletion saves time and accumulation
of unneeded messages.
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