Re: [Nmh-workers] When a message goes only to me, as a cc

[norm]

Thank you. That helped a lot.

To get it to work, in addition to the  "-whom", I had to treat
"-dist" in a special way.

Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
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>>I usually have a line, 'address@hidden', in my drafts. I do that instead of
>>something like 'fcc: inbox', because I want to see what my Email looks li=
>ke
>>after it has gone through the net. But sometimes I forget to otherwise ad=
>dress
>>the message. But then send will just go ahead and send the message, inste=
>ad of
>>balking, as it would if I used fcc instead of cc.
>
>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.
>
>--Ken
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>#!/bin/sh
>#
># localpostproc - A sample postproc which changes the submission email ser=
>ver
>#                based on user-supplied criteria.
>#
># The basic concept is that we change where we submit mail to based on the
># message contents.  We use scan(1) to get out fields we care about.  But
># really, you could use ANY criteria, such as environment variables,
># recipients, etc etc.
>#
>
>#
># Find out which message is the draft message; yes, this sucks.
>#
># The case statement has to know about switches that take arguments;
># add to this list as necessary.
>#
>
>whom=3D0
>
>find_draftmessage() {
>while test $# -gt 0; do
>case "$1" in
>-al* | -filt* | -wi* | -client | -idanno | -server | \
>-partno | -saslmech | -user | -por* | -width | \
>-file* | -mhl* | -mt* | -cr* | -lib* | -auth* | -sendmail)
>shift
>;;
>-whom)
>whom=3D1
>;;
>-*)    ;;
>*)     =
>
>draftmessage=3D"$1"
>return 0
>;;
>esac
>shift
>done
>
>echo "Cannot find draft message name in argument list"
>exit 1
>}
>
>realpost=3D"$(mhparam libdir)/post"
>
>if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
>echo "Usage: [post switches] filename"
>exit 1
>fi
bmission"
>;;
>
>*)
>echo "Don't know how to send email from $fromhost"
>exit 1
>;;
>esac
>
>exec "$realpost" $postflags "$@"
>
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    Norman Shapiro