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Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script"

2019-07-21 06:57:08
Hi Tom,

After looking again at the 'dist' man page I have:

    $ head -5 ~/Mail/distcomps 
    Resent-To: %<{nmh-to}%{nmh-to}%>
    Resent-From: %<{nmh-from}%{nmh-from}%>
    Resent-cc: %<{nmh-cc}%{nmh-cc}%>
    Resent-Fcc: %<{fcc}%{fcc}%>
    Resent-Comments:

Pls check above.

http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/etc/distcomps is the
stock one for comparison.

    echo send |
    dist -noedit \
        -from thud@zaz.com -to baz@nim.org -cc frog@thud.com -fcc resent \
        +sent 2022

Is there a prefered way to the above approach for automating the send?

Another way is

    echo y | dist -whatnowproc send -to foo

The icky ‘y’ is needed to answer send(1)'s ‘Use ".../42"?’ message
stating the draft prepared by dist(1) and communicated with the mhdraft
environment variable.  send doesn't ask if its -draft is given, but
-whatnowproc doesn't accept ‘send -draft’ as it tries to exec a program
called that single word.

None of this fits together too well.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

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