mutt variables and shell commands

2012-01-17 Thread Dan McDaniel
I want to call a script which will pass back a file to source like this: source `path-to/script.sh` I would like to set the path to the script in my muttrc with a mutt user-defined variable. This doesn't work because mutt doesn't appear to expand the variable before passing the part in

Re: Procmail vs. Mutt variables

2000-06-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2000: I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, but I'll take a whack at it. I didn't understand it either, but your guess does seem to make sense... You want mutt to have a save-hook that will specify a directory of mailboxes which

Re: Procmail vs. Mutt variables

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
Mikko Hänninen: Actually, you could embed `mkdir -p dirname` in any command -- it gets expanded but the result is an empty string. However the command does run. :-) whowherewhat? where are commands like this allowed like this? -- clemens

Procmail vs. Mutt variables

2000-06-04 Thread jgh
I found this in the procmailex man page: Store all the messages about meetings in a folder that is in a directory that changes every month. E.g. if it were January 1994, the folder would have the name `94-01/meet­ ing' and the locallockfile would be

Re: Procmail vs. Mutt variables

2000-06-04 Thread David T-G
Jason -- ...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... % I found this in the procmailex man page: Good enough... % ... % :0: % * meeting % `date +%y-%m`/meeting ... % :0 Wic % * ? test ! -d $MONTHFOLDER % | mkdir

Re: mutt variables

2000-05-08 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 08 May 2000: How may I check on the current state of a mutt variable? (likeis possible in vi? Either :set ?var or :set var=tab where tab is a keypress. Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] //