Re: how to do something automatically on sending a message to specific recipients
* On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 Chris McCraw (fool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:08:03AM +1000, Troy Piggins wrote:
> > * Chris McCraw <fool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
> > > i need to filter messages sent to a certain recipient
> > >
> > > send-hook '~t recipient@xxxxxxxxxxx' filter-entry /u/fool/filter.pl
> >
> > send-hook '~C recipient@xxxxxxxxxxx' 'filter-entry /u/fool/filter.pl'
> >
> > I do not use this filter.pl you talk of, but I have send-hooks of
> > similar format and this works for me.
> after entering the recipient@xxxxxxxxxxx and subject of a message, as
> mutt is invoking my editor, it reports:
>
> filter-entry: unknown command
>
> in the status bar and then goes on to send the message without filtering
> my mail. filter.pl is just a fairly simple perl script that behaves as
> such:
>
> % echo "testing this. and that." | /u/fool/filter.pl
> Testing this. And that.
> %
>
> filter.pl is world-readable/executable, and i am trying this with mutt-1.5.6i
>
> can you show me an actual example of filter-entry (or whatever the correct
> equivalent turns out to be) usage with send-hook?
why not use a macro?
macro compose ,F '<enter-command>unset
wait_key<enter><filter-entry>/u/fool/filter.pl<enter>y<enter-command>set
wait_key<enter>'
send-hook '~C recipient@xxxxxxxxxxx' 'push ,F'
HTH,
Michael
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