Ok, I've gotten so hooked on mutt that I'm wanting to use it for
netnews.
I know this has been discussed a lot, but as best I've been able to
tell the focus has been on NNTP support for some reason --- even
though mutt does email fine without talking SMTP.
By doing a little perl to batch-download netnews, with procmail for
something that works like killfile processing, I've got the netnews
presented to mutt just as though it were a mailing list. Just like
using fetchmail+procmail for imap w/ filtering.
And by using a little helper script instead of sendmail, that greps
for Newsgroups: to decide whether to pipe a copy into a mini-inews,
I believe I've got the posting all nailed.
Now the only missing bits are in header whapping, which is solely
mutt's turf. Here's the dream, which I don't have a clue how to
realize with mutt.
If the message I'm replying to has a Newsgroups header, then
(a) copy it into the edit buffer along with the other weeded
headers; and
(b) append the Message-Id to a References: header, copying
it forward if it exists or creating it if it doesn't.
Anybody know whether mutt can be asked to do that sort o' cleverness
with headers? I didn't find anything exciting in the manual, but
then again that may just be because I didn't know where to look. It
wasn't in the neighborhood of any mention of "header" in the
reference section.
-Bennett
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