Max Battcher wrote: > Trent W. Buck wrote: >> Eric Kow <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 18:37:51 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: >>>> Sorry, no. Note that --send-command is a made-up option. >>> On the other hand, --sendmail-command is a very real option >>> >>> --sendmail-command=COMMAND specify sendmail command >>> >>> which I use to send patches through msmtp >> >> Yes, but --sendmail-command expects a sendmail(8) compatible interface >> (e.g. -oi -t), whereas my imaginary --send-command expects a shell >> command into which the various values (%t for To, %s for Subject, %a for >> a file containing the patch attachment) are substituted. >> >> As MUAs like thunderbird and mutt do not provide a sendmail-compatible >> interface, --sendmail-command is not appropriate for people who (ab)use >> their MUA as their only means of relaying mail to a smarthost. > > Note that darcs --sendmail-command actually does what your > --send-command option intends. From the manual: > > --sendmail-command > If you want to use a command different from the default one > for sending email, you need to specify a command line with > the --sendmail-command option. The command line can contain > some format specifiers which are replaced by the actual values. > Accepted format specifiers are %s for subject, %t for to, %c for > cc, %b for the body of the mail, %f for from, %a for the patch > bundle and the same specifiers in uppercase for the URL-encoded > values. Additionally you can add %< to the end of the command > line if the command expects the complete email message on > standard input. E.g. the command lines for evolution and msmtp > look like this: > > evolution "mailto:%T?subject=%S&attach=%A&cc=%C&body=%B"; > msmtp -t %< > > IIRC, that evolution example in the manual _almost worked_ for > Thunderbird (IIRC, I believe it was that Thunderbird didn't pay > attention to &attach=...). Maybe someone should put together a Wiki page > of common recipes for MUA command line options. > > -- > --Max Battcher-- > http://worldmaker.net
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments_-_Thunderbird Attach is supposed to work after 1.5.0.2. -- Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/> Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/> _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
