Re: [Nmh-workers] Filtering mails with inc; passing arguments to Editor

[Joel Reicher]

On Feb 3 2011, Mikhail wrote:

> 1. Currently I use getmail with passing all mails to slocal, which puts
> mails to proper folders. Is it possible to make inc pass mails to
> slocal?

Sort of. This is effectively the "presort" functionality in exmh:

http://www.beedub.com/exmh/guide.html#FILTERING%20MAIL

slocal expects a single message on stdin, so presort (and probably what 
you'll have to do also) incs the mail into a temporary folder and then 
loops, feeding each message one at a time into slocal.

> 2. My Editor: variable in profile config set to 'vim', but I would like
> to pass some arguments to it. If I add them to profile I get error:
>
> unable to exec vim +':set ft=mail': No such file or directory
>
> Is there any other solution than creating #!/bin/sh script and putting
> it in $PATH?

I don't think so, no. MH expects the profile entry to be the name of an 
executable; it is interpreting your "command plus args" line as a single 
name with whitespaces in it.

Either a shell script or some other method vim supports will need to be 
used.

Cheers,

- Joel