NAME¶

whatnow2 - front-end for handling drafts

SYNOPSIS¶

whatnow [command |-Version] |-help]

DESCRIPTION¶

Whatnow is the default program that queries the user about the disposition of a composed draft. It is normally automatically invoked by one of the mmh commands comp, dist, forw, or repl after the initial edit.

When started, the editor is started on the draft. Then, whatnow can called with one of the commands.

When entering your response, you need only type enough characters to uniquely identify the response.

For the edit response, any valid switch to the editor is valid.

For the send response, any valid switch to send(1) is valid.

For the refile response, any valid switch to refile is valid.

See mh-profile(5) for further information about how editors are used by mmh. It also discusses how environment variables can be used to direct whatnow's actions in complex ways.

If the initial edit fails, no new draft is created, but any existing re-used draft is preserved. Failures of later edits are ignored and another prompt is printed.

Consult the mh-draft(7) man page for more information.

FILES¶

^$HOME/.mmh/profile~^The user profile
^+drafts~^The draft folder

PROFILE COMPONENTS¶

^Path:~^To determine the user's mail storage
^Draft-Folder:~^To set the default draft-folder
^Editor:~^To override the default editor
^Metafile-Extension:~^The optional extion for meta information like lasteditor
^<lasteditor>-next:~^To name an editor to be used after exit
^~^from <lasteditor>
^listproc:~^Program to list the contents of a message

SEE ALSO¶

send(1)

CONTEXT¶

None