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Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ? |
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Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:29:28 -0500 |
>>Can't you use rcvstore for this?
>
>I don't know. Can I?
>
>This (rcvstore) is yet one more thing that I never even knew about until
>today.
So, some meta-observations ...
As others have alluded, inc is a tool designed to be run interactively
by humans (although many times it's being run by a front-end program).
It's got a fair amount of logic in it that isn't really appropriate for
asynchronous background use (example: basically incorporates all of scan(1).
Also, on the backend it actually uses most of the scan routines for I/O).
The tool you want it rcvstore(1); it's designed to take a message on
standard input and incorporate it into a folder. If you're concerned
about it modifying the context, well, assuming by "context" you mean
the current folder and 'cur' message, the answer is that it does not do
that. It _does_ modify the unseen sequence, but you can turn that off
if you prefer.
As others have mentioned, slocal(1) performs the same function as procmail;
it's designed to be called from a forward file. It's not as featureful
as procmail, however.
>(It would have been Nice, I think, if the SEE ALSO section of the man
>page for inc had mentioned this one.)
So, we're probably not so great on documentation here; most of this was
inherited from the original MH package, and a lot of us old-timers don't
appreciate how it's hard to come to nmh cold. So I, for one, do appreciate
the feedback.
>Sorry to be so helpless, but as all can see now, I'm actually rather
>seriously ignorant, both about anything but the most rudimentary features
>of procmail and also, apparently, about all but the most fundamental
>commands provided by nmh.
Well, have you seen the O'Reilly MH book? It's been open-sourced by
Jerry Peek (the original author). While it hasn't been kept up-to-date
with respect to new features in nmh, it's got a ton of information
that's still relevant:
http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/
It might help fill in some of the gaps. Do we have a link to that on
the nmh home page? Ok, we do.
--Ken
- [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ronald F. Guilmette, 2013/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Jerrad Pierce, 2013/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Joel Uckelman, 2013/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ronald F. Guilmette, 2013/02/15
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Joel Uckelman, 2013/02/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ronald F. Guilmette, 2013/02/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2013/02/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ken Hornstein, 2013/02/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Tethys, 2013/02/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ken Hornstein, 2013/02/19