On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:46:15AM -0300, Andrei Mikhailov wrote: > I would expect that this command: > > echo mymaildir | xargs mutt -f > > be equivalent to: > > mutt -f mymaildir > > But instead, mutt complains about ``no recipient specified''. > Please help me to figure this out!
The problem here is that when you run it this way, Mutt's stdin is not a terminal. When that's the case, mutt expects you're composing a message on the command line, and will complain when you don't provide it enough options to specify the message envelope: $ mutt -f Mailbox < /dev/null No recipients were specified. For the UI to work, stdin must be a terminal, so that mutt (or rather, whichever terminal control library it uses) knows what to send to the terminal to draw the screen, etc. AFAIK there's no way around that. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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