Rocco, et al --

...and then Rocco Rutte said...
% 
% Hi,

Hello!


% 
% On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 07:18:15:AM -0500 David T-G wrote:
% > ...and then Rocco Rutte said...
% 
...
% > That would probably be welcomed, after all of the talk
% > of making fcc-save-hook able to save to a pipe so that a script can save
% > multiple copies of the message, but nobody has stepped up to *that* yet
% > and so I don't see it happening for this...
% 
% Well, that's another different topic. Really nobody done this before?

That's right.  The sendmail wrapper script for fcc multiplication is the
closest anyone has come.


% 
% > That gives me an idea, though.  You could
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% >   send-hook . 'set record="`date +/tmp/$H$M$S`"'
% 
% > and then it *would* be repeatedly evaluated but not until the hook is
% > executed, and that should get you what you want.

By the way, I find myself wondering how you tell mutt to not quote blank
lines as you have here.  Or do you have an editor startup command that
changes all '^> $' to '' for you?


% 
% Haven't tried it, but it should do, yes. But it looks like hack. If you

So what if it looks like a hack?  If you look at it that way, most
scripts and have of everyone's muttrc file will probably be hacks; after
all, a hack -- particularly in this sense -- is putting things together
in new and interesting ways.


% go upon such a level on a regular basis, saving multiple copies of
% outgoing messages is more than trivial, too. Just write a script saving

Heh.  See the wrapper paragraph above for that one...


% to locations you want and finally handing the mail over to $sendmail.
% Done.

Right.  So a $sendmail wrapper would work for your fcc needs, too :-)


% 
% > % ... and I thought that some more generall solutions would be
% > % interesting.
% 
% > Interesting, to be sure, but someone has to want to code it :-)
% 
% Sure. It would be done already if I had the skills. Mutt would even suck
% much less, if I had the skills. ;-)

There's your excuse to learn! :-)


% 
% Rocco


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