attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Hein Zelle
Dear Mutt users, is there an easy way to attach multiple files to a message, from the commandline, using a wildcard? I start mutt from the commandline a lot, like so mutt -a weekly_report.txt peter which works fine. I'd also like to do the following: mutt -a *.png peter however that doesn't

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Hein Zelle 2007-03-20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] which gets cumbersome with 20+ files. There's a good alternative (attaching files from within mutt), but I was wondering if anyone has solved this before. Any clever shell scripts to add the -a option for each of the filenames? for f in *.png ; do

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Roessler
FWIW, if somebody can come up with a decent command line interface for attachig multiple files, that would be a rather valuable contribution. -- Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2007-03-20 13:33:34 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: From: Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Charles Cazabon
Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, if somebody can come up with a decent command line interface for attachig multiple files, that would be a rather valuable contribution. -j 'glob_pattern' Mutt automatically attaches any file in the CWD that matches the glob, i.e. mutt -j

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Charles Cazabon 2007-03-20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mutt automatically attaches any file in the CWD that matches the glob, i.e. mutt -j '*.png' ... Or make that -a, stat() the file first, and if not there, try to expand the pattern. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Christoph Berg [07-03-20 15:10:32 +0100] wrote: Re: Charles Cazabon 2007-03-20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mutt automatically attaches any file in the CWD that matches the glob, i.e. mutt -j '*.png' ... Or make that -a, stat() the file first, and if not there, try to expand the pattern.

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2007-03-20 14:32:05 +, Rocco Rutte wrote: Does getopt() prevent us from allowing any number of additional arguments for -j? If you ask me, globbing is a shell's reposibility. agree -- Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, March 20 at 03:33 PM, quoth Thomas Roessler: On 2007-03-20 14:32:05 +, Rocco Rutte wrote: Does getopt() prevent us from allowing any number of additional arguments for -j? If you ask me, globbing is a shell's reposibility.

Re: attach multiple files from command line

2007-03-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2007-03-20, Kyle Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, March 20 at 03:33 PM, quoth Thomas Roessler: On 2007-03-20 14:32:05 +, Rocco Rutte wrote: Does getopt() prevent us from allowing any number of additional arguments for -j? If you ask me, globbing is a shell's

Advice on query_command technique.

2007-03-20 Thread Ray Van Dolson
Hi all, I am a mutt user trying to happily co-exist in an Exchange environment. For the most part all is well. I wrote a small Python program to act as my query_command to look up addresses via AD (LDAP) so I could have access to the company address book. The problem is that Distribution Groups

Re: Advice on query_command technique.

2007-03-20 Thread Thomas Roessler
Frankly, the right solution is to make this distribution group addressable through SMTP. -- Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2007-03-20 16:53:36 -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote: From: Ray Van Dolson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mutt-users@mutt.org Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:53:36 -0700

Re: Advice on query_command technique.

2007-03-20 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:57:28AM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote: Frankly, the right solution is to make this distribution group addressable through SMTP. Agreed. There are some hoops to jump through however in order to make this happen in the meantime ... :) Ray