Mike Schiraldi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:04:20PM -0700, Steve Talley wrote: > > I do use procmail. As an MDA. procmail isn't appropriate here. > > > > If mutt has the ability to allow the user to edit a message, and > > then automatically save it to the mail folder, and delete the > > orignal, why shouldn't it be able to do the same with an arbitrary > > shell script? > > How about making a macro which sets your editor to the script, runs > <edit>, and then resets your editor? > > For example, try typing > > :set editor = 'sleep 1; perl -pi -e "s/subject/sUbJeCt/i"' > > and then pressing e on some message. It'll change the case of the > subject header.
Yeah, this is what I'm doing now. But what a hack. It makes for some cumbersome macros... > determine if the message has been modified, and since the script > runs so fast, mutt assumes nothing was changed. > > Someone posted a patch a few months ago which has mutt change the > file's timestamp to "one second ago" before calling the editor, so > that you wouldn't need that pause. How about a patch just to filter to an arbitrary command, so that this hack isn't needed? Clearly 99% of the code exists to do that already... Thanks, Steve
