I moderate a bunch of lists on Yahoo!, and I moderate list membership.
When I get an e-mail saying so-and-so wants to join list X, I send an
e-mail to so-and-so asking for a name and any other information that
demonstrates that so-and-so is a legitimate member and not a spammer.
So far, I've been successful in using Mutt to pipe a message to a Perl
script which automatically sends the "who are you?" message. However,
I'd like to be able to automatically process the reply also, in case I
want to approve the membership. Usually, the person responds to the
"who are you?" message leaving the message body intact. So I want to
have something embedded in the "who are you?" message that can point my
script back to the original "so-and-so wants to join" message from
Yahoo!, so I can reply to that.
I'm using MH mailboxes, so I could simply embed the folder and message
number of the original Yahoo! notification. However, when I pipe a
message to my perl script, I have no idea what the original MH message
number is. Mutt has assigned numbers of its own.
Any way to find the path/name of the original message file? Other
suggestions for how to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
Thanks!
-pd
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