On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:25:34PM +0200, Dirk Laurie wrote:
> I can write a little script, e.g.
>
> # /bin/sh
> MBOX=$$
> cat > /tmp/$MBOX
> mutt -f /tmp/$MBOX
> rm /tmp/$MBOX
>
> but mutt seems to know that it is not being invoked from a terminal
> and tries to go into send mode.
>
> Am I mi
I can't pipe a startup mailbox to mutt, because
cat mailbox | mutt
is treated as an instruction to mail what is piped in. Some Unix
commands use the filename "-" as an alias for standard input, but
cat mailbox | mutt -f -
does not work. Of course, this trivial example can be handled by
mut
