Article View: comp.mail.mh
Article #1973Using filters
From: Martin J. Buckley
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 01:31
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 01:31
39 lines
1727 bytes
1727 bytes
Recently began investigating how best to implement a small call tracking
system and thought to use MH with tickets distributed via mail with
global folders as the archive. MH would seem to have a powerful enough
display mechanism for handling most reporting.
Creating tickets is easy, all that is needed is a component file with the
necessary fields.
Encountered a problem when trying to update an existing ticket(message).
Wanted to accomplish this with repl. Have created a replcomps that
matches my component file and sets up the body to contain:
Header
------
******** updated by: name at ##########
previous body.
The problem is in creating a readable form of the current data. From
what I read in mh-format, $(timenow) is the seconds since the unix
epoch. How do I get this to a human readable form? Have I missed some
other way of generating the date in a message?
Was hoping not to have to send the message through a dummy acount just
to obtain the actual date.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks
Martin Buckley
Martin Buckley
buckley@m2c.org (CSNET, internet with MX support)
buckley%m2c.org@relay.cs.net (Internet)
{harvard,bu-cs,ulowell,frog,applix,umvlsi}!m2c!buckley (UUCP)
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<5309@m2c.M2C.ORG>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!m2c!odin.m2c.org!buckleyShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!husc6!m2c!odin.m2c.org!buckley From: buckley@odin.m2c.org (Martin J. Buckley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Using filters Message-ID: <5309@m2c.M2C.ORG> Date: 3 Feb 90 01:31:12 GMT Sender: news@m2c.ORG Reply-To: buckley@odin.m2c.org (Martin J. Buckley) Distribution: usa Organization: Massachusetts Microelectronic Center, Westboro, Mass. Lines: 39