On 28 August 2008, 16:36, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > I see. I hadn't caught the gist of your question.
> I don't see how an external command could technically do that, I think > the macro needs a command that requests the information. > However, I don't know how the macros and templates really work behind > the scenes, so I am not sure it's impossible. Personally, I cannot > imagine a need for this though. Can you help my imagination and > describe a scenario? ~~~ I know that the sorting office filters can create a temporary text file to contain the message content and pass the name of that file to an external command as the first formal parameter. As I write, I've no idea whether the external command can modify the message content so I've set up a small experiment to pause processing to let me modify the file by hand and see what happens. If this text goes through unaltered, it means that an external command set in an outgoing filter won't be able to modify message text. In the meantime, as I wrote upthread, there are uses for this sort of thing. HTH, -- Geoff Lane Cornwall, UK -- Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.0.24.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
