#Message Handler
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Do you happen to know if anyone has written a Message Handler for the Amiga
yet? I looked through the DLs and didn't see one, but thought I might have
missed something.
What I'm talking about is a means to capture SIG mail, answer it offline
and upload the replies…specifically for Access!
Thanks
Art Lewis
Art,
Nothing like that….yet.
You can do that now. Use the macros, and login, go to the forum, then open
a buffer. Send a RTN (or however you read messages) and when you get the
function-prompt, or menu, close buffer, logoff. Save the buffer, and then use
either ED or something similiar. (check out KEEP.ARC, dl-4 to read messages)
I used to have a nice setup that used KEEP to go through the ones I wanted to
answer, then UEDIT to display/answer them. You can get away with using ED
(two of them, as the Ami does multitask) One show, and one to type in. To
send, edit using your favorite editor, then make a mini-script re <message
number> Hi!
/ex re <next message> You too!
/ex
Just dump that file at the forum prompt. It may look like World War II is
breaking out, but it works.
Hope this helps,
Doug
I've been trying what you said about handling messages off line.
By the way…KEEP is GREAT! I'm a little confused though as to how I get
all my replies to stream using Access!
The first reply goes okay, but then after the /ex I get a prompt asking
for Leave Action and I commands entered after the /ex (i.e.
'/ex;s0;re;111111' don't seem to take.
Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Art
Art,
Whoops! forgot the Save command. S or SU (unformatted) or even MA for mail,
just like you normally do.
re <message number>
Hi there!
/ex
s
re <next message number>
testing…testing…etc.
Just You
/ex
su
The key to it all is to supply CIS with the information it wants, in the
order it wants it. (By the way, I suggest op;ed;edit;p to set EDIT as your
editor, and include a op;sm;n;s in the 'script' to keep the messages from
stopping after each one. You can make these permanent, as I did, and use a
macro to set op;sm;a;s (stop after each) for those times you wish to read
online. You can get quite elaborate with what is done, but there are gotchas
to it. Noise and deleted messages will make life difficult unless you are
careful. However, sometime in the _near_ future, this should not be
necessary for you.
Hope this helps,
Doug