Paul F. wrote:
i'm having a bit of trouble understanding how to integrate mhfixmsg
into my workflow.
i'd like to automatically run mhfixmsg on all mail, and, therefore,
keep a backup of messages that it processes. since i kind of abhor
the ,nnn style of mh backups, i'd like to keep the mhfixmsg backups in
a separate folder. i think i can do this by setting mhfixmsg's
rmmproc to a command that does something like:
cp $* $(mhpath +mhfixbackup new)
is there a better way?
Not that I can think of, though I use the procmail approach so
haven't thought too much about it.
to invoke mhfixmsg, using add-hook would normally seem like the best
bet, except that it makes "refile -link" useless (for messages that
mhfixmsg wants to process), as far as i can tell. there's no way to
disable add-hook for individual commands, right?
I don't think so, that's why there's the caveat in the mhfixmsg
man page.
are hooks a useful
enough feature that making them settable for individual commands
(i.e. "inc: -add-hook my-inc-add-hook") be desireable?
the man page also suggests using something like:
alias inc='inc && mhfixmsg'
but i don't see how this will work -- what if inc incorporates several
messages?
Right, that should be fixed.
mhfixmg by default will only act on 'cur', leaving the
others unprocessed. (i suppose "inc && mhfixmsg unseen" would work, at
the cost of re-checking messages that i've manually added back into
the unseen sequence.)
The cost of re-checking is so low that I would go that route.
Alternatively, something like this (completely untested)?
msgs=`inc -format '%(msg)'` && [ -n "$msgs" ] && mhfixmsg $msgs
Let me know what you settle on and I'll update the man page.
finally -- it feels like mhfixmsg should always add a new
"X-mhfixmsg-was-here" header when it modifies a message, which would
let me know that there is (or was) another version of the message file
floating around somewhere. was this considered?
No. Off hand, I'm not fond of it. You can do that with anno if
you want.
David
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