Subject: customised message in the mail body

From: Kitty Kwan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:48:10 +0800 (HKT)

Just want to know if there are ways to include a customised message in 
the body of an email message which we may distribute to our mailusers or 
mailing lists.

Kitty.

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From: Joe DiBenedetto <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:19:52 -0400 (EDT)

Kitty,

If by "customised" you mean a form letter, there are ways.  The simplest
is to create the form letter in plain text, and save the file in a public
or shared directory.  Then users can copy the message to their home direc-
tory and read it into the body of their messages using ^R in compose mode.

Joe

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From: Raja BrewHaHa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:23:39 -0600 (MDT)

> the body of an email message which we may distribute to our mailusers or 

If by "customised" you mean "personalized form letter", you're best off
using another program, like WordPerfect, to generate the letters. Just
use the "ASCII text printer" printer driver to make it print to a file.

While that will speed up creation of the letters a bit, it will also
result in one large file. That's fine.

If you take a look at your postponed messages file, and make a WordPerfect
form that will imitate that file format, you should be able to minimize
the necessary work.

That should reduce the work to a few key-strokes per message. If you could
turn off Pine's display and run a keyboard macro for the purpose, you'd be
laughing. As it is, you're stuck with a lot of unnecessary display if you
can figure out how to write the keyboard macro.