Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-09-03 22:59:39, schrieb David Champion: This works, but you'd need to store the valid random number someplace. For a zero-knowledge approach you could do something like generate an MD5 hash of the prospective member's e-mail address with some secret that's shared between the script

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-09-05 07:46:09, schrieb Peter Davis: I understand that. I guess what I should have said was Mutt doesn't give me any way to pass a pointer to the message file. All I can do is pipe the contents of the message. HOW do you filter the E-Mails? If you are using procmail, you can use

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-09-04 22:58:29, schrieb Peter Davis: Yes, but both of those require searching through a potentially large number of messages to find the matching id. I figured that since I'm Are you joking? My LKM folder has at least 26.000 messages (2 month, 200 MByte) and a simple grep take

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-05 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Thursday, September 4 at 10:58 PM, quoth Peter Davis: ~i id ... or: grep '^Message-ID: id' * Yes, but both of those require searching through a potentially large number of messages to find the matching id. If you use hcache, the ~i pattern

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Davis
Kyle Wheeler wrote: I figured that since I'm using MH format anyway, I should be able to include a path directly to the message file itself ... except that Mutt doesn't seem to give me a way to pass that information when I pipe a message to a script. Of course not - it's a *pipe*. :)

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-04 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, September 3 at 10:59 PM, quoth David Champion: On Wednesday, September 3 at 10:54 PM, quoth Peter Davis: Usually, the person responds to the who are you? message leaving the message body intact. So I want to have something

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Davis
Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, September 3 at 10:59 PM, quoth David Champion: On Wednesday, September 3 at 10:54 PM, quoth Peter Davis: 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

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-04 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, September 4 at 08:06 AM, quoth Peter Davis: Is there a fast way to find a message with a given Message-ID? If so, that would work. ~i id ... or: grep '^Message-ID: id' * ~Kyle - -- Whenever you have an efficient

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Davis
Kyle Wheeler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, September 4 at 08:06 AM, quoth Peter Davis: Is there a fast way to find a message with a given Message-ID? If so, that would work. ~i id ... or: grep '^Message-ID: id' * Yes, but both of

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-04 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, September 4 at 10:58 PM, quoth Peter Davis: ~i id ... or: grep '^Message-ID: id' * Yes, but both of those require searching through a potentially large number of messages to find the matching id. If you use hcache,

Automated message processing

2008-09-03 Thread Peter Davis
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,

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-03 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, September 3 at 10:54 PM, quoth Peter Davis: 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

Re: Automated message processing

2008-09-03 Thread David Champion
On Wednesday, September 3 at 10:54 PM, quoth Peter Davis: 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