Re: Automated message processing
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On Thursday, September 4 at 10:58 PM, quoth Peter Davis:
>> ~i <id>
>>
>> ... or:
>>
>> grep '^Message-ID: <id>' *
>>
>
> Yes, but both of those require searching through a potentially large
> number of messages to find the matching id.
If you use hcache, the ~i pattern match will be just a hash-table
lookup, which should be constant time no matter the number of
messages.
> I figured that since I'm using MH format anyway, I should be able to
> include a path directly to the message file itself ... except that
> Mutt doesn't seem to give me a way to pass that information when I
> pipe a message to a script.
Of course not - it's a *pipe*. :)
In the example:
cat foo | somecommand
somecommand has no way of ever discovering what or where foo is.
That's a feature, not a flaw.
~Kyle
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