Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script"

[nmh]

Hi Ken:

On Tue 7/23/19 21:44 -0400 Ken Hornstein wrote:
>>   mhannotate=Resent mhaltmsg=~/Mail/sent/bar mhdist=1 send ~/Mail/drafts/foo
>
>It wouldn't surprise me that the problem is that ~ in mhaltmsg.  Is that
>actually being expanded?  If you run send with -debug, do you maybe
>see a message saying "$mhaltmsg mismatch"?

$ ( set -x ; x=~ true )
+ x=/a/rodmant
+ true

So bash expands ~ before send sees it.

>How annotations work is a bit magical.  send sees that the 'mhannotate'
>variable is set, opens a file descriptor and passes that descriptor down
>to post(8) using the -idanno flag.  Post then writes the address information
>to the anno descriptor (which is a tmp file which has been unlinked)
>and then send(1) reads that file and uses it to construct the annotation.
>But there's a check in sendsbr.c:anno() to make sure the stat() information
>of the filename in mhaltmsg matches what is being passed in as the
>original filename; that will fail silently without -debug if there
>is a mismatch.

Interesting/thanks.

I can live without the -annotate working -- it works fine, but not with
David's undocumented -file MSG_PATH.

--
Tom