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String Variables
String variables have the form
string-name
= string-value
The following string variables are defined.
aliassortby The sort order for the alias index in the Alias Menu. The recognized
values are:
alias Sort by alias name.
name Sort by the full name of the alias, last name first.
text Sort by the order of the aliases in the alias text file.
Prefix the value with
reverse- to reverse the sort order. The default is
name.
alteditor The name of the editor to use for messages that have initial text (a copied
message in a reply, a signature in any outbound message, etc.). when
the editor string variable is set to none
or builtin. The default is
the value of the
EDITOR environment variable, if set and nonnull, or
/usr/bin/vi otherwise. See also the editor string variable.
alternatives A list of other machine and user name combinations that you receive for-
warded mail from.
elm uses this information when a group reply is
being processed to ensure that a reply message is not sent to a user
and/or machine address that would simply forward the reply message
back to you. The default is none.
attribution Attribution string for replies. When you reply to a message and include
the message in the reply, this string is placed at the top of the message.
The characters %s are replaced by the full name of the author of the ori-
ginal message. The default is none. For example:
attribution = %s wrote:
calendar The name of your calendar file. This is used in conjunction with the
Message Menu < (calendar) command, which scans messages for calen-
dar entries. The default is $HOME//calendar
.
charset The name of the character set used with the MIME Content-Type:
header for the text/plain type. It can be any Internet-defined char-
acter set name that is a superset of US-ASCII. The default is US-
ASCII. For example,
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
compatcharsets A list of Internet-defined character sets that are supersets of US-ASCII,
so that messages with charset=US-ASCII
can be displayed without
the help of
metamail. The default is a string containing the following
values:
Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese
ISO-2022-JP
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-8
ISO-8859-9
KOI8-R
Shift_JIS
configoptions A string of options that can be configured on the Options Menu. Specify
the options as a single letter each, in the order they should be displayed.
The default is "ˆ_cdefsopyv_am_un". The defaults are marked below
with an *.
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