Re: [Nmh-workers] somewhat OT: re procmail or ??

2012-09-12 Thread Christer Boräng
In message 201209111805.q8bi5nla016...@ginseng.hep.wisc.edu, ra...@hep.wisc.e du writes: Am I dinosaur for still using procmail?? I mean, is there something better? If not, does anyone have patches for logging e.g. date, from, to? OMG, it just occurred to me: maybe it's INFERIOR to slocal these

Re: [Nmh-workers] somewhat OT: re procmail or ??

2012-09-12 Thread rader
Am I dinosaur for still using procmail?? I mean, is there something better? If not, does anyone have patches for logging e.g. date, from, to? OMG, it just occurred to me: maybe it's INFERIOR to slocal these days!?!? :) No patch needed. From my .procmailrc (The first LOG call

Re: [Nmh-workers] somewhat OT: re procmail or ??

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Fox
ra...@hep.wisc.edu wrote: Am I dinosaur for still using procmail?? I mean, is there something better? If not, does anyone have patches for logging e.g. date, from, to? OMG, it just occurred to me: maybe it's INFERIOR to slocal these days!?!? :) No patch needed.

Re: [Nmh-workers] somewhat OT: re procmail or ??

2012-09-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi rader, I'm mostly interested in answering the question which folder did the recent msg FROM so-and-so@somewhere go into? I haven't been following the thread, having not used procmail in years, but would this do? (Untried.) for f in `folders -fast`; do pick -seq lp -from foo

Re: [Nmh-workers] somewhat OT: re procmail or ??

2012-09-12 Thread Paul Fox
is it possible you don't have a 'From ' line in the mail content that's being filtered? postfix delivers my mail via procmail to multiple mailbox files, and then i inc from those into my (similarly-named) MH mail folders. also, my .procmailrc doesn't touch LOGABSTRACT in any way -- it's left at

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread norm
Jon Steinhart j...@fourwinds.com writes: Attach was implemented as part of whatnow because that seemed to be the place to put it for one who uses comp/repl/forw/etc. like I do and I implemented it. It couldn't be done as a shell command combined with the above because that would have meant you'd

Re: [Nmh-workers] somewhat OT: re procmail or ??

2012-09-12 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 12 September 2012 at 8:16, ra...@hep.wisc.edu wrote: I'm mostly interested in answering the question which folder did the recent msg FROM so-and-so@somewhere go into? Maybe the attached script is a useful way to answer that question after the fact? The script has other uses too, as it's

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Norm, Of historical interest: Whatnow now has features not available to shell users. This represents, the perhaps inevitable, denouement of an argument I lost decades ago. I believed then, and believe now, that the whatnow feature was a mistake; that the correct in terface between mh

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread David Levine
Norm wrote: Of historical interest: Whatnow now has features not available to shell users. This represents, the perhaps inevitable, denouement of an argument I lost decades ago. I believed then, and believe now, that the whatnow feature was a mistake; that the correct interface between mh

[Nmh-workers] Attaching a directory

2012-09-12 Thread norm
I'm working on the attach, alist, detach, etc. write up. It seems that attaching a directory, attaches all the files at the top level of that directory. Correct? But if any of those files happen to be a directory, then it results in an under-the-hood Nmh-Attachment: header getting transmitted

Re: [Nmh-workers] Attaching a directory

2012-09-12 Thread Ken Hornstein
It seems that attaching a directory, attaches all the files at the top level of that directory. Correct? I didn't know about that, but cool. But if any of those files happen to be a directory, then it results in an under-the-hood Nmh-Attachment: header getting transmitted all the way to

Re: [Nmh-workers] Attaching a directory

2012-09-12 Thread norm
Ken Hornstein k...@pobox.com writes: It seems that attaching a directory, attaches all the files at the top level of that directory. Correct? I didn't know about that, but cool. What, you didn't read the what now man page? But if any of those files happen to be a directory, then it results in

Re: [Nmh-workers] Attaching a directory

2012-09-12 Thread David Levine
Norm wrote: It seems that attaching a directory, attaches all the files at the top level of that directory. Correct? Yes, it does whatever ls does. But if any of those files happen to be a directory, then it results in an under-the-hood Nmh-Attachment: header getting transmitted all the

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread norm
David Levine levin...@acm.org writes: Norm wrote: Of historical interest: Whatnow now has features not available to shell users. This represents, the perhaps inevitable, denouement of an argument I lost decades ago. I believed then, and believe now, that the whatnow feature was a mistake;

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread Jon Steinhart
n...@dad.org writes: If a user doesn't want to use whatnow but wants to use the attach feature, they could manage the magic headers manually or via simple scripts (or now, mhmail). But what if she's not as smart or as knowledgeble as you? Then you, being smarter should help her out by

[Nmh-workers] whatnow response abbreviations, l vs. a

2012-09-12 Thread David Levine
Here's my problem: I invariably enter l at the whatnow prompt when I want list. That worked until attach was added (10 years ago!), but I still do it. I just realized that it doesn't have to be that way. We currently have a similar situation with a that we handle differently: (a)ttach

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread Ken Hornstein
If a user doesn't want to use whatnow but wants to use the attach feature, they could manage the magic headers manually or via simple scripts (or now, mhmail). Guys, Is it me, or could we implement attach via: % anno +drafts 1 -append -nodate -component Nmh-Attachment -text your-file-name-here

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ken Hornstein writes: If a user doesn't want to use whatnow but wants to use the attach feature, they could manage the magic headers manually or via simple scripts (or now, mhmail). Guys, Is it me, or could we implement attach via: % anno +drafts 1 -append -nodate -component

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread David Levine
Ken wrote: Is it me, or could we implement attach via: % anno +drafts 1 -append -nodate -component Nmh-Attachment -text your-file-name-here Brilliant! It'd have to watch out for multiple files (attach foo*.jpg). David ___ Nmh-workers mailing

Re: [Nmh-workers] The attach feature

2012-09-12 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ken Hornstein writes: Ah. Well, if your argument is with the existence of whatnow as opposed to the addition of attach to the existing whatnow we're in agreement. As per other heated discussions on this list, there is a strong don't break things mentality on this list (which got misplaced on