On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Chris Barnes wrote:

>#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.  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.

Just to be clear here, you mean using Pegasus's "forward without
change" (I forget exactly what it's called in Pegasus, but it does the
same thing as a "bounce"), and not Pegasus's normal forwarding
function, which allows you to edit the forwarded message but also
includes it in your own mail envelope.

>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.

I personally would use Pegasus to save the messages into another IMAP
folder, and then go in with shell access and edit *it* directly as a
file (though of course you'll have to know which UNIX directory IMAP
is using for the folder), rather than editing my "inbox" directly.
That way, if I inadvertantly screw up the folder with my editing, I've
screwed up my folder containing only those messages, and not my entire
inbox, which I might or might not be able to straighten out without
having to nuke it and start over.

'Course your sense of adventurousness may vary...      :)

Dennis


>Geez, I really wish a Pop3/Imap client would allow a Resend/Bounce *and*
>allow the text to be edited first....
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