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Message Header
┌────────────────────────···· 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 └───────────────────────────────────────────────······
Customizing the message header displayed when users read messages (e.g. posts and mail messages) via the terminal server involves either:
- Creating/modifying the system's
text/menu/msghdr.*file
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).
Since a 40-column version of the message header file (msghdr.40col.asc) exists in a default install (e.g. from CVS), that file is displayed rather than the text.dat lines for users with 40-column terminals.
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 @-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.*: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/text/menu/msghdrexample.asc
- A message header to use only for 40-columns terminals: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/text/menu/msghdr.40col.asc
