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


From: nmh
Subject: Re: [nmh-workers] 'dist' in "1 line noninteractive script"
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 13:53:02 -0500

Hi Ralph:

On Sun 7/21/19 12:56 +0100 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
[...]
>http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/etc/distcomps is the
>stock one for comparison.

Thanks Ralph, I have updated my personal distcomps per above.

>>     echo send |
>>     dist -noedit \
>>         -from address@hidden -to address@hidden -cc address@hidden -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.

OK the whatnowproc must be a single word - good to know.
Thanks for the help. 

David's follow up suggests that send uses a few
env variables to detect that 'dist' is calling it.

--
regards,
Tom



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