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Re: [Nmh-workers] When a message goes only to me, as a cc
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] When a message goes only to me, as a cc |
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Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:40:58 -0400 |
address@hidden wrote:
> >I think the simplest thing to do would be to write a custom postproc
> >and use it to interrogate the draft (using scan(1)) to make sure it was
> >the way you want. Like if the To: line was blank, exit with a sensible
> >error message. If you were happy with it, call the real post.
> >
> >I've attached the sample postproc I put in the nmh contrib directory;
> >it's job is to change the switches to post depending on the from line,
> >but you could use it to see if there's something in the To: header.
>
> Would you be willing to tell me how, in such a script, I could detect the
> presence or absence of a specific header, say "Exception: norm"? (I don't
> intend or want to enter the currently raging header debate. I'm just asking a
> specific technical question.)
i think ken would do it with scan(1), but he's one of the few people in
the world that can write mh-format code off the top of his head. ;-)
i'd use sed:
draftfile=...
exception_header=$(sed -n -e '/^Exception:/p' -e '/^$/q' < $draftfile)
if [ "$exception_header" ]
then
...
fi
paul
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paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 53.4 degrees)
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] When a message goes only to me, as a cc, Ralph Corderoy, 2016/10/13
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Re: [Nmh-workers] When a message goes only to me, as a cc, Ken Hornstein, 2016/10/15
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