On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:58:32PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, August 4 at 07:14 PM, quoth ed: > > Today I was wondering if it would be possible to send an entire > > message through a filter before taking the result of that filter as > > the input to form a new message. > > > > '| /home/$USER/bin/filter | vim -' > > Sure, it can be done. Not exactly like that, though. The thing is that > mutt creates the temporary file for new messages; it doesn't simply > pass the message as standard in for the editor. So your filter has to > respect the fact that mutt already created the file. Try this: set > $editor to be a script... let's say ~/myfilter.sh. Now create the > script: > > #!/bin/sh > filename="$1" > /home/$USER/bin/filter <"$filename" >"$filename".tmp > mv "$filename".tmp "$filename" > exec vim "$filename" > > Of course, I may have misunderstood what you're asking.
Hi Kyle, This doesn't do quite what I'm after as I want to take the original email as input to the script, not what mutt has created as the reply. Mainly this is so that I can inspect the headers of the original before generating the headers of the reply. I know it's a lot of senselses work but I want to set the From: header to match the fist Delivered-To header of the original... Thanks Best regards
