Re: Sending message from command line, I get no fcc

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Monday, November 19 at 11:01 PM, quoth Michael Kjorling:
>I am trying to automate sending certain messages, using a script to
>call Mutt 1.5.16 (on Linux). It is working fine, except that despite
>there being a folder-hook that should (and as far as I can tell from
>the maillog does) get invoked setting among other things $record, no
>copy of the outgoing message is saved there, or apparently anywhere
>else for that matter. This is fairly important in my case.

When you send a message automatically via a script, mutt does not open 
any folders (-f arguments are IGNORED), and thus the folder-hooks are 
not triggered. Think about it: why open a folder if you're being told 
to send a message and then exit? There's no reason to, which is why 
mutt doesn't do it, which is why your folder-hook isn't getting 
triggered. That's why I prefer to use folder-hooks exclusively for 
things relevant to using mutt interactively---things like mailing list 
settings are (in my opinion) better if done using a send-hook or 
reply-hook or something like that.

If you need to set $record for this script, one easy way of doing it 
is to specify that on the commandline, with the -e flag.

Here's how I would rewrite your script:

     #!/bin/bash
     # Use mktemp properly
     FILE=$(mktemp -q -t muttattachment-XXXXXXXXXXXX )
     # Test the return value and the writeable/existence of $FILE
     [ $? == 0 -a -f "$FILE" -a -w "$FILE" ] || exit -1
     cat - > "$FILE"
     mutt -a "$FILE" \
         -e "set record=+somewhere" \
         -R -s "subject" -- \
         "recipient@address"
     # clean up after myself
     rm -f "$FILE"

Another way to do it is by, like I mentioned, using a send-hook, e.g.:

     send-hook '~C recipient@address' 'set record=+somewhere'

~Kyle
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