Paul wrote: > is there a way to set up a hook of some sort, either at the whatnow > level, or deeper in send or post, which will cause forbid sending, or > cause sending to fail, if a set of user-defined sanity checks > don't succeed? > > i use a wrapper script for my editor in mh, and the script > prints warnings regarding the draft when the editor exits.
If that script exits with non-zero status, then comp, etc., should not send, and terminate with a message. > it checks for things like a missing To: header at all, or if the > From: header looks like my home address but the To: header looks > like a work address -- that sort of thing. when vi exits, > and i'm back at whatnow, i get this: > > WARNING: missing or empty 'To:' header.... > What now? > > and that's great, when i'm fully caffeinated and am actually paying > attention to what's on the screen. > > i'd like to elevate at least some of those warnings to fatal errors -- > i'd like to not be able to send the message until i fix the problem. > > how might i do that? If I understand correctly, you're doing something like: comp -editor sanitychecker where sanitycheck is of the form below. Or do you get to whatnow some other way? David #! /bin/sh <sanity checks> if <sanity checks succeeded>; then exec whatnow -editor $EDITOR "$mhdraft" else echo sanity checks failed exit 1 fi _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
