NAME

       Rnmail - a program for replying via mail

SYNOPSIS

       Rnmail destination_list
         or
       Rnmail -h headerfile [oldarticle]
         or
       Rnmail

DESCRIPTION

       Rnmail is a friendly interface for mailing replies to news articles.  It will ask several questions, then
       allow  you to enter your letter, and then mail it off.  If you type h and a carriage return at any point,
       Rnmail will tell you what it wants to know.

       If you put a .signature file in your home directory, Rnmail will append it to your message after you  are
       done  editing it.  If you prefer to see your signature while you are editing, rename your .signature file
       to be .mail_sig and it will be appended  before  you  begin  to  edit.   Note  that  both  .mail_sig  and
       .signature  obey the setting of DOTDIR unless Rnmail was modified to take the .signature appending out of
       Rnmail's control and that if both files exist you get two signatures appended.

       The -h form is used when invoked from trn or rn.  If your editor can edit multiple files,  and  you  want
       the  article  to  which you are replying to show up as an alternate file, define the environment variable
       MAILPOSTER as "Rnmail -h %h %A".  You can also modify the the MAILHEADER environment variable  to  change
       the header file that [t]rn passes to Rnmail.

ENVIRONMENT

       DOTDIR  If  defined,  specifies  a  place other than your home directory where 'dot' files may be stored.
               This is primarily for accounts which are shared by more than one person.

               Default: $HOME

       EDITOR  The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.

               Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi.

       HOME    Your home directory.

               Default: $LOGDIR

       LOGDIR  Your home directory if HOME is undefined.

       LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined.

               Default: value of "whoami".

       MAILRECORD
               If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished message will be appended.

               Default: message not saved

       NEWSORG Either the name of your organization, or  the  name  of  a  file  containing  the  name  of  your
               organization.  (For  use at organizations where the ORGANIZATION environmental variable is in use
               for  other  purposes).  If  both  NEWSORG  and  ORGANIZATION  are  set,  NEWSORG  will   override
               ORGANIZATION.

               Default: whatever your news administrator chose.

       ORGANIZATION
               Either  the  name  of  your  organization,  or  the  name  of  a file containing the name of your
               organization.

               Default: whatever your news administrator chose.

       REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to insert into your message.

               Default: header line not inserted.

       USER    Your login name.

               Default: $LOGNAME

       VISUAL  The editor you want to use.

               Default: $EDITOR

FILES

       $DOTDIR/.letter
       $DOTDIR/.signature
       $DOTDIR/.mail_sig
       ~/dead.letter

SEE ALSO

       trn(1), rn(1), Pnews(1), mail(1)

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

       Uses /bin/mail in the absence of sendmail.

                                                      LOCAL                                            RNMAIL(1)