Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Steve Talley [05/16/02 19:19:39 CEST] wrote: > > David T-G wrote: > > > > > > It doesn't match the subject anymore, but I hate mutt for not > > > > syncing my mailboxes with the output from my $display_filter. > > > > > > Why? That's what the filter is for; if you want to change the > > > message, then you should 'e'dit it and pass it through your > > > filter somehow. Note that it's up to you to figure out how you > > > should implement this in a transparent manner ;-) > > > > This is handled by the filter_message patch, posted on 3/26. The > > output of your filter is integrated into your mailbox as a new > > message, and the old message is marked for deletion. > > I don't why I've missed this one. It would really solve this problem > but would break things completely up, at least in my case because my > filter produces some output I really do not want to be written back > to my box.
Your filter could write the unwanted output to STDERR, which is displayed to the user but not included in the resulting message. Steve
