Peter Seebach wrote:
> 
> Am I the only person who actually uses mail by preference over elm/pine/et
> al.?  I was wondering if there's any interest in new developments.  I'd
> like to see about 3 new features in mail, but I'm not sure if they'd break
> anything.  They would be:
> 1.  Fix the delete message count bug.  (read message two.  Delete it.  hit
> return, and get message four.)
> 2.  Add a | command, and |'s in save filenames - "| cmd", "s 1 |cmd",
> and "1,5 |cmd" should all work, IMHO.
> 3.  Add "set signature=/file/name".
> 
> Would any of these break conformance?
> 
> -s

It looks as though what you want is a program called 'mush'.  It
was written quite a while ago; the farthest it ever got was version
7.2.5.  It supports automatic signing in two ways, as well as the
the 's 1-5 | cmd' (although it pipes to internal commands, but
I think one can make it do external stuff).

Archie for the sources -- I forget where I got them.  ftp.uu.net
sounds about right (as crusty as the archives are).  Make sure you
get version 7.2.5.

After he finished 'mush', the author went on to create 'zmail'
(he was going to call it 'zipcode' but the Postal Service got on
his butt for trademark infringement) as a commercial product.

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