Hi Ken:
On Tue 7/23/19 21:44 -0400 Ken Hornstein wrote:
mhannotate=Resent mhaltmsg=~/Mail/sent/bar mhdist=1 send ~/Mail/drafts/foo
It wouldn't surprise me that the problem is that ~ in mhaltmsg. Is that
actually being expanded? If you run send with -debug, do you maybe
see a message saying "$mhaltmsg mismatch"?
$ ( set -x ; x=~ true )
+ x=/a/rodmant
+ true
So bash expands ~ before send sees it.
How annotations work is a bit magical. send sees that the 'mhannotate'
variable is set, opens a file descriptor and passes that descriptor down
to post(8) using the -idanno flag. Post then writes the address information
to the anno descriptor (which is a tmp file which has been unlinked)
and then send(1) reads that file and uses it to construct the annotation.
But there's a check in sendsbr.c:anno() to make sure the stat() information
of the filename in mhaltmsg matches what is being passed in as the
original filename; that will fail silently without -debug if there
is a mismatch.
Interesting/thanks.
I can live without the -annotate working -- it works fine, but not with
David's undocumented -file MSG_PATH.
--
Tom
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