Sending Replies
Rmail has several commands that use Mail mode to send outgoing mail. See Sending Mail, for information on using Mail mode, including certain features meant to work with Rmail. What this section documents are the special commands of Rmail for entering Mail mode. Note that the usual keys for sending mail--C-x m, C-x 4 m, and C-x 5 m--are available in Rmail mode and work just as they usually do.
- m
Send a message (rmail-mail). - c
Continue editing the already started outgoing message (rmail-continue). - r
Send a reply to the current Rmail message (rmail-reply). - f
Forward the current message to other users (rmail-forward). - C-u f
Resend the current message to other users (rmail-resend). - M-m
Try sending a bounced message a second time (rmail-retry-failure).
The most common reason to send a message while in Rmail is to reply to the message you are reading. To do this, type r (rmail-reply). This displays the *mail* buffer in another window, much like C-x 4 m, but preinitializes the Subject, To, CC and In-reply-to header fields based on the message you are replying to. The To field starts out as the address of the person who sent the message you received, and the CC field starts out with all the other recipients of that message.
You can exclude certain recipients from being placed automatically in the CC, using the variable rmail-dont-reply-to-names. Its value should be a regular expression (as a string any recipient that the regular expression matches, is excluded from the [b]CC[/b] field. The default value matches your own name, and any name starting with [b]info-[/b]. (Those names are excluded because there is a convention of using them for large mailing lists to broadcast announcements.) [p]To omit the [b]CC[/b] field completely for a particular reply, enter the reply command with a numeric argument: [i]C-u r[/i] or [i]1 r[/i]. [p]Once the [b]*mail*[/b] buffer has been initialized, editing and sending the mail goes as usual (see [link url=/od/emacs_doc/a/emacsdoc467.htm]Sending Mail[/link]). You can edit the presupplied header fields if they are not right for you. You can also use the commands of Mail mode (see [link url=/od/emacs_doc/a/emacsdoc303.htm]Mail Mode[/link]), including [i]C-c C-y[/i] which yanks in the message that you are replying to. You can switch to the Rmail buffer, select a different message there, switch back, and yank the new current message. [p]Sometimes a message does not reach its destination. Mailers usually send the failed message back to you, enclosed in a [i]failure message[/i]. The Rmail command [i]M-m[/i] ([b]rmail-retry-failure[/b]) prepares to send the same message a second time: it sets up a [b]*mail*[/b] buffer with the same text and header fields as before. If you type [i]C-c C-c[/i] right away, you send the message again exactly the same as the first time. Alternatively, you can edit the text or headers and then send it. The [p] * [b][link url=/od/emacs_doc/a/emacs_doc_idx.htm]Emacs Manual Index[/link][/b] _z_linux_z_);
