RE: [Pan-users] Re: VDQ 0.119 : forward -- how??

[Travis]

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Subject: [Pan-users] Re: VDQ 0.119 : forward -- how??

> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:06:58 +0000, Duncan wrote:
>
>> There doesn't have to be a direct forward option.  You just use
>> followup (or reply to author if you prefer), and change the content
>> of the newsgroups and mailto header boxes as desired, in this case
>> deleting the existing content from both, and putting whatever
address
>> you are forwarding to in the mailto header box.
>
> I had tried that; tried it again. It wanted to open a
> terminal and run Pine (the only mailer I consider worth an
> electron) -- with six or eight lines of gibberish in the To: field,
> yet.
>
> Scrubbed that. Edited preferences -- it was taking Pine from
> Gnome. All I could find to do was tell it Custom, and them
> leave the app blank. Tried again. It did nothing, afaict.
>
> I keep pine open all the time -- on a remote machine, under
> ssh. There may be hotshots here who could write a script to
> make it get into that, and start a message there; but I'd be
> incompetent even to run it. Besides, nine times out of
> eleven, that's the address I want to forward *to*.
>
> Why can't it just mail it off transparently, using some
> mailer I don't have to see, and closing that afterward? It used to.
>
> I'm sorry, but this seems to me decidedly what the Germans
> call a Verschlimmbesserung -- lousing something up by trying
> to fix what ain't broke.
>
> Any hope of getting the old way back? Or is there a workaround??

I just click "Post" click "Reply to Author" and it opens a Pan2 mail
window I add the address click "Send Post" a new mail window in my
mail client  opens I click send and away we go.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington