Re: [Nmh-workers] When a message goes only to me, as a cc

[Paul Fox]

address@hidden wrote:
 > Paul Fox <address@hidden> writes:
 > >address@hidden wrote:
 > >> >I think the simplest thing to do would be to write a custom postproc
 > >> >and use it to interrogate the draft (using scan(1)) to make sure it was
 > >> >the way you want.  Like if the To: line was blank, exit with a sensible
 > >> >error message.  If you were happy with it, call the real post.
 > >> >
 > >> >I've attached the sample postproc I put in the nmh contrib directory;
 > >> >it's job is to change the switches to post depending on the from line,
 > >> >but you could use it to see if there's something in the To: header.
 > >>
 > >> Would you be willing to tell me how, in such a script, I could detect the
 > >> presence or absence of a specific header, say "Exception: norm"? (I don't
 > >> intend or want to enter the currently raging header debate. I'm just 
 > >> asking a
 > >> specific technical question.)
 > >
 > >i think ken would do it with scan(1), but he's one of the few people in
 > >the world that can write mh-format code off the top of his head.  ;-)
 > >
 > >i'd use sed:
 > >
 > >draftfile=...
 > >exception_header=$(sed -n -e '/^Exception:/p' -e '/^$/q' < $draftfile)
 > >if [ "$exception_header" ]
 > >then
 > >.
 > 
 > Except that it would find the string "Exception:" at the beginning of of any
 > line in the body of the message.

no -- that's what the '/^$/q' is for -- it causes sed to quit at the first
blank line in the file.

paul
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paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 52.0 degrees)