ACRES Automated Cross-Reference Structure

Generating and Sending E-Mail

The E-mail message shall be prepared as body.txt, or more generally, as the source file for a current document. (The default is body but other choices may be declared).

The E-mail sending facility will wrap this body with the proper E-mail prelude, and expedite it. There are some variants of the command for doing this, with the following invocations and peculiarities:

• send sends the current file to the mailing list associated with the current register as the SENDLIST property. Used for sending out ENRAC Newsletters.

• sml sends current file To present mailing list, chosen as an entity under the D agent. The Cc is empty, the Re is the RE property of the present document object. No edit before expediting, and no Cc to erisa or any other base.

• smau sends the mail to the current person in the Q agent (the volume level object). Cc to erisa. Use RE property of the document.

• smauc Lastname looks up the email of that person, and composes and sends the message. Allow the user to see it in Emacs before it is sent. Cc to erisa. Use RE property of the document.

• sbod emadr similar but the email address is given explicitly. Allows the user to see the message in Emacs before it is sent. Prompt the user for the Re field.

These definitions are in the program file docop.

The global LISP variable *mailaux* designates (as a string) the file where the message is kept before being sent. The default for this file is /home/erisa/msg/aux.txt. This must be changed when others use this facility.

This documentation has been obtained from hand-written notes, but additional checking recommended before relying on it.

Maintenance information:

Latest update 21.8.1999 by EMTEK group. Edit mode NIL, position code C.acres.authors.send.