Hi,

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 03:29:58:PM -0500 David T-G wrote:
> % The problem is the following: if I would type fast enough to send a few
> % dozen mails a minute, I wanted to be abled to include the date and time

> Heh.  And you talk about not wanting to spam! :-)

You're lucky. I'm toooooo tired to type fast enough. ;-)

> In general, if you set your config inside single quotes, it will be
> evaluated at execution time (when you send the email or invoke the hook
> or whatever) rather than read time (when you start mutt or reread your
> muttrc file).

The following doesn't work, too:

set record='`date +/tmp/%H%M%S`'

What I thought of is that 'record' becomes a special type of 'path'
allowing pipes. Appending '|' could cause mutt just to remember that
string (instead of its expanded value) and evaluate it short before
usuage.

> You can see more on this if you search the archives for send-hook and
> uptime; this typically comes up when people want their x-uptime headers
> to be accurate to the time of the email rather than the time of the
> mua initialization.

I'll have a look at the archive. But using hooks is not what I want.
Just setting the variable.

> IIRC that would be a short section; if anything, perhaps just a note that
> says "... and you can only do this pipe thing on the $signature variable
> unless you see us talk about pipes on another variable".

Yepp.

Well, a while back I had this problem and (temporarily) solved it by
using a hook which sources another file containing a my_hdr command.
This special file was not sourced anywhere else. Seemed to work.

... and I thought that some more generall solutions would be
interesting.

Rocco

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