Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote: >> Only I have no reason to edit the outgoing draft, so I used: >> >> % dist -nowhatnowproc -form fmcomps +inbox 179 >> >> but that does nothing. I strace it, no call to mhbuild, no call to >> post. No activity in /var/log/mail.log.
> Well, it does exactly what every other command that takes
> -nowhatnowproc does ... it builds the draft file based on what you give
> it and then exits. The comp(1) man page kind of explains this, but not
> very well:
> The -build switch is intended to be used by the Emacs mh-e
> interface to nmh. It implies -nowhatnowproc. It causes a file
> <mh-dir>/draft to be created, containing the draft message that would
> normally be presented to the user for editing. No mail is actually
> sent.
Not using the -build switch directly, and while I am working in the end from
Emacs/MH-E, I didn't think I wanted that.
What is the purpose of -nowhatnowproc without -build then?
> Maybe you want -whatnowproc send ? I didn't test that, but I think
> that should work.
I didn't know that I could use "send" as the bare whatnowproc.
I guess that did the trick. When first reading your suggestion, I thought
that this was some magic to tell whatnowproc to do it's send thing, but now
as I wrote this, I realize it's saying "send" will be the whatnowproc.
I had problems with the draftfolder, and I found that "dist" does not accept
-use?
I was prompted:
obiwan-[~](3.3.8) mcr 10025 %dist -draftfolder +inbox/drafts -whatnowproc send
-form fmcomps +inbox 277
Use "/home/mcr/Mail/drafts/14"? n
And since *this* message was in the middle of composition (yes, in Emacs), I
said no, since I wasn't sure which message was which.
Actually, 14 was a new message, this draft is 13. So I tried with -use,
based upon reading mh-draft(5), but dist does not accept it.
so trying again:
dist -draftfolder +drafts -draftmessage new -whatnowproc send -form fmcomps
+inbox 277
this prompted me:
Use "/home/mcr/Mail/drafts/15"? y
and this did the right thing, but can I suppress this query?
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