Re: (no subject)

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mani Sridhar forced the electrons to say:
> invoke pico to edit the actual mail composition. but the newlines are all
> truncated and only pico's own word wrap is obvious. that's why i've put the

When you sent the mail, you were not on the console of the
linux machine. Were you telnetting in from a windows machine? The telnet
program that comes with windows is pathetic. I am yet to see a curses based
application that runs fine from one of these telnet windows. I have faced
problems with mutt, vim, slrn and lynx.

One way that might work (not guaranteed, though) is to put the line

export TERM=vt102

in one of your startup scripts. This is just a crude solution, since you also
ought to check whether the tty is console or not.

> please answer. <newline> I wrote this script because i find it very diffcult
> to lynx to mailcity or telnet to some public unix system where i have an

BTW, did you know that, since lynx 2.8.2, you can insert the contents of a
file in the TEXTAREA field of a form? This is not bound to any key by default,
but you can bind it to any key you like. So you can also compose in files and
then insert into the form at mailcity whever you like.

> account every time i want to send a mail. so i compose the mail and put it
> in a file with RFC822 ( SMTP right ? ) headers like mail FROM: and RCPT To:

Nope. RFC 822 defines mail headers - like From:, To:, Received:, Cc: etc.
RFC 821 defines SMTP. MAIL FROM: and RCPT TO: are SMTP commands.

Binand
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