Joe Brenner <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a number of shell scripts that do mail refiling in the > traditional "mh" way, where I often do things like this: > > refile `pick +inbox \ > -from [email protected] \ > -or -to [email protected] \ > -or --apparently-to [email protected] \ > ` +BALUG > > The Gnu utils version of pick does not seem to know what to > make of something like "--apparently-to", it gives me the > error: > > pick: unrecognized option `--apparently-to' > > With nmh, the double hyphen indicates you're matching a mail > header field (aka a "component") with some arbitrary name, in > this case: "Apparently-to:"
At long last I have access to the mailutils info (I built it from scratch, just to get this... it doesn't seem to ship with the Ubuntu mailutils packages for some reason), and I see that this is called a "non-standard extension" (there are standards for mh?) and is considered deprecated. However: It is recognized only if 'pick' is called from within another program, so that existing application continue to work. And that is indeed what I'm doing, calling pick from within an already existing shell script. _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
