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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.1 annotate
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Vish Parakala |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.1 annotate |
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Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:02:34 -0600 |
no difference ...
> On 1 July 2004 at 14:35, Vish Parakala <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Yup, anno seems to work perfectly fine ...
> > it's just all other components (which use post/send)
>
> About 15 years ago, when I started writing the O'Reilly MH book,
> I played around a lot with the mostly-undocumented process
> environments under MH: how certain environment variables passed
> from a parent process to its children would alter the behavior
> of some back-end applications. For instance, if I remember
> right, dist sets an environment variable to tell "send" or "post"
> to at the "Resent-to:" header field instead of "To:", and so on.
> (Most of that stuff is documented in the online version of the
> book at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/ . Try an index search
> for "environment". I haven't completely updated this for nmh.)
>
> One quick way to track down the problem might be to compare an
> older nmh installation with a newer one. Make a sendproc script,
> or a postproc script, like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "$0 environment:"
> env
> echo "$0 arguments:"
> echo "$*"
> exit 1
>
> (You set "sendproc:" -- and, I think, "postproc:" -- from the
> .mh_profile file.) Send similar messages from both systems
> and see if something is different. I have no idea if that will
> help; it's just an idea.
>
> Jerry
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>
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Vish Parakala