How to get date and time in mailx reply

mfoley · 11-25-2017, 01:37 AM

I am using mailx. When I reply to a message, I get the expect

SoAndSo wrote:

along with the original text with ">" prefixes, but I don't get the date. I used to get:

On thisDate SoAndSo wrote:

Right now, I'm copy/pasting the date into the reply message. How can I get this in my replied message? There is no $HOME/.mailrc. The /etc/nail.rc is:

Code:

set hold

set append

set ask

set crt

set dot

set keep

set emptybox

set indentprefix="> "

set quote

set sendcharsets=iso-8859-1,utf-8

set showname

set showto

set newmail=nopoll

set autocollapse

set markanswered

ignore received in-reply-to message-id references
ignore mime-version content-transfer-encoding

fwdretain subject date from to

scasey · 11-26-2017, 04:16 PM

What's new that caused this change, I wonder?

I find this in the man page (emphasis mine):

Code:

       quote  If set, mailx starts a replying message with the original message prefixed  by  the
	      value of the variable indentprefix.  Normally, a heading consisting of `Fromheader-
	      field wrote:' is printed before the quotation.  If the string noheading is assigned
	      to the quote variable, this heading is omitted.  If the string headers is assigned,
	      the headers selected by the ignore/retain commands are printed  above  the  message
	      body,  thus quote acts like an automatic ~m command then.  If the string allheaders
	      is assigned, all headers are printed above the message body, and all MIME parts are
	      included, thus quote acts like an automatic ~M command then.

...so it looks like you're getting the default heading.

I'll leave it to you to figure out how to assign strings and select headers as defined in the second highlight.

mfoley · 11-27-2017, 01:19 PM

.~/mailrc I tried:

Code:

quote=headers
# and
quote=allheaders
# the following are and always have been set:
fwdretain To From Subject Date Organization
fwdignore Delivered-To

In both cases I pretty much got all headers -- not what I want. I've no idea what changed. Maybe I'm hallucinating about my recollection. I've spent enough time on this. I'll just manually add in the "On <date>" bit for now.