Syntax:
Follow_up [userid] [options]
Examples:
f
fo subj="New Subject"
foll flopsy cc=mopsy cc=cottontail
Description:
Follow_up sends out a message that includes the
text of a Saved message. If you specify a single message
reference, MAIL8 looks through your Saved drawer and includes the
text of the requested message. If you do not specify a message
reference, MAIL8 uses the text of the current Saved message. If
you are at end-of-drawer, MAIL8 gives you an error.
If you do not specify a userid or userid group, your follow-up
message is sent to the person who sent you the original Saved
message.
As shown in the examples, options can give characteristics to
your Outbound follow-up and can also add information lines.
Normally, the Subject information line of your follow-up is
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 follow-up will be
Subject: Re: Your Report
You can get a different subject using the Subject=
option on the command line.
Normally, 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 Follow_up
command line. However, the +All option tells MAIL8 to
send copies to all the people mentioned in the original Cc:
list as well as to new cc=user people.
Because you do not know who received blind copies of the
original message, those people do not receive copies of your
follow-up. However, you can specify a Bcc: list of
your own.
MAIL8 lets you add your own text to the text you include from
the Saved message. Normally, your text appears before the text of
the Saved message; however, if you specify the +Verbose
option, the original message comes first and your new message
afterward.
When MAIL8 is ready for the text of your message, it prompts
you for input with your normal input prompt (if you have set one
with Option InputPrompt). See "expl mail option inputprompt"
for more details. MAIL8 then gathers lines for the text of your
follow-up until you enter a line that only consists of a dot "."
followed by carriage return. If you press BREAK while entering
your message and choose the Edit option, MAIL8 calls
your preferred editor to let you edit both the original message
and your new message.
When the Outbound message has been created and the
notification(s) put in the correct Unread drawer(s), MAIL8
displays 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.
- +AnswerBack
- puts the AnswerBack characteristic on the Outbound
message.
- +Attached_Files
- sends out files that were attached to the original
message (in addition to the original message itself). If
you do not specify this option, MAIL8 only sends the
message itself, not the attached files.
- BlindCarbonCopies=user
- sends a "blind" copy of the message to the
specified user. Recipients are not told that this person
also 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 header 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. Error messages
are still displayed. 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 (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.
- +Verbose
- puts the original message first and then your new
message. It also uses a different format for presenting
the original message and includes more of the original
message's header lines.
- <filename
- obtains the body of the message from the given file
instead of prompting for terminal input.
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