Re: [Nmh-workers] Sending automatic email

2008-04-23 Thread Neil W Rickert
Xavier Maillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Apr 23, 2008: I am trying to figure out how, given the To, Subject and body of message, to generate a complete mail draft ready to shoot. I'm not quite sure what you are want. But here is a shell script, shamelessly stolen from somewhere forgotten,

Re: [Nmh-workers] Does anyone remember how blind aliases used to work?

2007-04-10 Thread Neil W Rickert
Joel Reicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Apr 10, 2007: There is a sample line in the mh-alias man page which doesn't appear to be supported anymore: b-people: Blind List: bill, betty; I just tested with 1.0.4, and it is working fine. I'll test later at home (newer version). Doing ali -list

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.3 release and Dcc/Bcc behaviour

2007-03-30 Thread Neil W Rickert
Ralph Corderoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mar 30, 2007: Agreed. Besides, I've always found fcc useless. It doesn't expand local user names, e.g. `to: ralph' stays like that instead of becoming `to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]', and there's no message-id which is vital for referring someone back to an

Re: [Nmh-workers] The invisible mail folder

2007-02-27 Thread Neil W Rickert
Norman Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Feb 27, 2007: I would also argue that the +folderName syntax for designating a file name is strange and unique to mh. The notation +folder for identifying a mail folder goes back at least to ucbmail (/usr/ucb/Mail or /usr/ucb/mail or emulated by mailx).

Re: [Nmh-workers] localname in mts.conf

2006-11-05 Thread Neil W Rickert
Jordan Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Nov 5, 2006: Is there a way to set this variable on a per-user basis? I have users on my machine who have different domains. Thanks! You can set masquerade to draft_from. Then have your users put their sender address, including domain name, in a From:

Re: [Nmh-workers] multiple folders to rcvstore

2005-11-09 Thread Neil W Rickert
Nicholas M. Kirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Nov 7, 2005: I'd like to add an option to rcvstore to take multiple folders (and link the msg to each one). I'll add my two cents. Personally I have no need for this option, so I would not use it. If I really wanted something similar, I would

Re: [Nmh-workers] Questionable code in m_chkids() in sbr/context_save.c

2005-05-18 Thread Neil W Rickert
Ken Hornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on May 16, 2005: (AFAIK sendmail and friends always run stuff under the user's real and effective uid, so I don't think slocal should ever be setuid). If you run slocal from .forward, then it runs as the recipient (the person using .forward). But there are

Re: [Nmh-workers] A question for the nmh historians

2005-05-18 Thread Neil W Rickert
Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on May 17, 2005: How useful is the notion of public and private sequences? Just curious. It is very useful if you share a folder between several accounts. It doesn't fully work at present. Only the account that owns the particular folder is allowed to

Re: [Nmh-workers] Questionable code in m_chkids() in sbr/context_save.c

2005-05-13 Thread Neil W Rickert
Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on May 13, 2005: Saw this while looking for something else. m_chkids() forks a child process to run context_save() if the uid is not the same as the euid. But, it ends up running as if the uid and euid are the same if the fork() fails. Seems to me that

Re: [Nmh-workers] Questionable code in m_chkids() in sbr/context_save.c

2005-05-13 Thread Neil W Rickert
Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on May 13, 2005: Jon Steinhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on May 13, 2005: Saw this while looking for something else. m_chkids() forks a child process to run context_save() if the uid is not the same as the euid. But, it ends up running as if the uid and

Re: [Nmh-workers] tempfile creation

2005-04-27 Thread Neil W Rickert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Apr 27, 2005: On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:01:45 EDT, Mike O'Dell said: if i were to hazzard a guess, the reason the code doesn't use mkstemp() is that [1] the code cited is likely well more than twice age of mkstemp() [2]and nobody has gone looking for things to fix that