On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Chris Barnes wrote:

>2) use a different email program which will allow me to edit the original
>text, while keeping the headers intact.
>
>#2 is really the tricky part as finding such a program is VERY difficult.
>The only one that *really* works well is Mailbook, which runs only on VM/CMS
>systems.

That's one part of my now-deceased VM/CMS mail account that I miss. It
allowed you to forward a message with "Resent-" headers and edit it in
the mail program. I've found no other program that does this without
using kludges such as you describe below.

>However, if your email is setup to use IMAP rather than POP, *and*
>you have shell access, you can use a program like Pegasus to forward those
>messages you don't have to edit, leaving those you need to tweak on the
>server.  Edit the /var/spool/mail/moderator-userid file (assuming a un*x
>system) being careful to edit the text and not mung-up the headers.  Then go
>back into Pegasus and send the modified messages.
>
>
>Geez, I really wish a Pop3/Imap client would allow a Resend/Bounce *and*
>allow the text to be edited first....

I certainly don't know of any...

Dennis