Re: how mutt pipes multiple messages
On 2004-05-03, Norvell Spearman <norvell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When more than one message is tagged and I send them to an external
> command, exactly how are they sent? one-by-one or an mbox file created
> on-the-fly containing all the tagged mails? I ask because I use
> spamprobe and it expects files or standard input to be one message and
> it has a switch for when you pass mbox files to it, and I'm not sure
> whether sending the wrong format will skew the Bayesian statistics.
You can pipe multiple messages either way. This behavior is
controlled by the 'pipe_split' variable. This is described in the
manual. In either case, each message begins with the '^From ' line.
HTH,
Gary
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