Re: How to just view the email constructed by mutt without sending it?
On 20Apr2016 14:39, Peng Yu wrote: Hi, I use the following command to send email with mutt. But sometimes, I want to inspect the email body constructed by mutt. Is there a way to do so? Thanks. echo "This is the message body" | mutt -s "subject of message" -- a...@domain.com You could set $sendmail to be a script that just took a copy of the message and did not send it. Then look at the copy. You can also resent such a copy later by handing it directly to sendmail (or whatever your mutt is currently using), or by handing it to mutt again with the -H option. Cheers, Cameron Simpson
How to just view the email constructed by mutt without sending it?
Hi, I use the following command to send email with mutt. But sometimes, I want to inspect the email body constructed by mutt. Is there a way to do so? Thanks. echo "This is the message body" | mutt -s "subject of message" -- a...@domain.com -- Regards, Peng
Re: Show output (and place for extra input) from sendmail command
Oh yes, you will want to pass any arguments received on to your inner script:
xterm -e script-to-ask-questions-and-then-send.sh "$tmpf" ${1+"$@"}
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson
On 20Apr2016 20:03, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 19Apr2016 20:30, Xu Wang wrote:
I use a custom sendmail command. I would like to have my script (that
I set to 'sendmail' muttrc variable) ask some questions from to the
user and also give feedback to the user directly. But mutt does not
run the process in the foreground so it seems impossible.
Is there an approach?
Could it pop up a separate terminal window to run the commands? For
example, untested, make your $sendmail setting point at a shell script
like this:
#!/bin/sh
set -ue
tmpf=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/sendmail.$$
cat >"$tmpf"
xterm -e script-to-ask-questions-and-then-send.sh "$tmpf"
rm "$tmpf"
You see we pass in the temp file to your ask-questions-and-send script
so it can feed the message to sendmail (or whatever), and then remove
it after xterm returns (which will be after your innner script has
finished).
Just one idea.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson
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Re: Show output (and place for extra input) from sendmail command
On 19Apr2016 20:30, Xu Wang wrote:
I use a custom sendmail command. I would like to have my script (that
I set to 'sendmail' muttrc variable) ask some questions from to the
user and also give feedback to the user directly. But mutt does not
run the process in the foreground so it seems impossible.
Is there an approach?
Could it pop up a separate terminal window to run the commands? For example,
untested, make your $sendmail setting point at a shell script like this:
#!/bin/sh
set -ue
tmpf=${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/sendmail.$$
cat >"$tmpf"
xterm -e script-to-ask-questions-and-then-send.sh "$tmpf"
rm "$tmpf"
You see we pass in the temp file to your ask-questions-and-send script so it
can feed the message to sendmail (or whatever), and then remove it after xterm
returns (which will be after your innner script has finished).
Just one idea.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson
