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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm priority/action headers
Message-ID: <3978@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 88 09:25:15 GMT
References: <6871@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
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In article <6871@uwmcsd1.UUCP> jgd@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (John G Dobnick) writes:
+
+I just ran across something that strikes me as "strange".  If I mail a message
+to someone and set either the "Action:" header or the "Priority" header, or
+both, these headers are propogated to all subsequent messages I mail and to all
+subsequent replies I generate, in that Elm session.   Is this the intended
+behavior of Elm?  
+
+I can understand "user headers" being kept around for later messages, but I
+would think that things like "Priority" would be cleared for each new message.

Reason tells me this is a bug. Just because you're sending out more than one
piece of mail in the same session with elm is no reason that once you set
the priority and action headers in one , all subsequent messages in that
session should be of the same priority and action. Likewise with the user
defined header, esp. since the elmheaders file provides a facility for user
defined headers for more than on a one shot basis.

I have found the bug and submitted a patch to Elm coordinator Syd Weinstein,
as part of the Elm 2.2 development effort.

Please continue to post about bugs you find in elm. The information is
very, very useful to us Elm developers.
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX Small Bus. Systems Development & Maintenance
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