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--- custom:messageheader [2011/06/16 10:06] – tracker1
+++ custom:messageheader [2022/07/02 12:29] (current) – [Message Header] Replace CVS mentions/links with Git digital man
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 ====== Message Header ======
-When reading messages, you will often want to create a custom header for the message reading, as an asc/ans file, instead of the default message header driven by TEXT.DAT settings.
+<file>
+┌────────────────────────····                                       Synchronet
+│ Subj: Word wrapping                                                ▌▀▌▌▀▌▌▀▌
+│ Attr: Replied                                                      █▀▌█▀▌▐▄
+│ To  : mark lewis                                                   █ ▌█ ▌▄ ▌
+│ From: Digital Man #1                                               ▀▀ ▀▀  ▀
+│ Date: Mon Apr 15 2019 03:17 am PDT (23.4 hours ago)                software
+└───────────────────────────────────────────────······
+</file>
+Customizing the message header displayed when users read messages (e.g. posts and mail messages) via the [[server:terminal]] server involves either:
+  * Modifying the first 9 strings defined in the system's ''[[dir:ctrl]]/[[custom:text.dat]]'' file, or
+  * Creating/modifying the system's ''[[dir:text]]/menu/msghdr.*'' file
-The File should exist in ''./text/menu/MSGHDR.ASC'' you can use the ANS2ASC utility for an initial conversion.  You will then want to put the appropriate control codes into the message header.
+The default behavior for users of terminals with more than 40 columns is to use the hard-coded C/C++ Synchronet logic to display the ''text.dat'' lines which are appropriate for the current message (the order of displayed header fields can not be changed).
-Here are a few codes that I find useful (note the -L### is for padding/trimming the length of an item)
+Since a 40-column version of the message header file (''msghdr.40col.asc'') exists in a default install (e.g. from Git), that file is displayed rather than the ''text.dat'' lines for users with 40-column terminals.
-  * @SMB_GROUP@
-  * @SMB_SUB-L#######@
-  * @SMB_CURMSG@
-  * @SMB_MSGS@
-  * @MSG_DATE-L#########################@
-  * @MSG_ATTR-L#########################@
-  * @MSG_FROM_NAME-L#########################@
-  * @MSG_TO_NAME-L#########################@
-  * @MSG_SUBJECT-L#########################@
-TODO: Clean this page up.
+If you chose the ''text.dat'' file route, here are the strings you'll be interested in:
+  * MsgSubj
+  * MsgTags
+  * MsgAttr
+  * MsgTo
+  * MsgToNet
+  * MsgToExt
+  * MsgFrom
+  * MsgFromNet
+  * MsgFromExt
+  * MsgDate
+  * MsgVotes
+  * MsgHdrBodySeparator
+  * PollAnswerChecked
+  * ForwardedFrom
+If you chose the ''msghdr.*'' file route, here are some [[custom:atcodes|@-codes]] that you may want to include in the file for dynamic string values:
+  * SMB_GROUP
+  * SMB_SUB
+  * SMB_AREA_DESC
+  * SMB_CURMSG
+  * SMB_MSGS
+  * MSG_DATE
+  * MSG_TIMEZONE
+  * MSG_AGE
+  * MSG_ATTR
+  * MSG_FROM_NAME
+  * MSG_TO_NAME
+  * MSG_SUBJECT
+Synchronet comes stock with:
+  * An example ''msghdr.*'': ''[[https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/text/menu/msghdrexample.asc|msghdrexample.asc]]''
+  * A message header to use only for 40-columns terminals: ''[[https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/blob/master/text/menu/msghdr.40col.asc|msghdr.40col.msg]]''
 ===== See Also =====
   * [[:custom:atcodes|@-Codes]]
   * [[:custom:ctrl-a_codes|Ctrl-A Codes]]
+  * [[:custom:menu files]]
+  * [[:config:text files]]
   * [[:custom:|Customization]]
-{{tag>}}
+{{tag>message header}}

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