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Article #174Re: dead.letter twist
From: Barton E. Schaefer
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1989 23:59
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 1989 23:59
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In article <24FF7EB4.54ED@drivax.UUCP> davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) writes:
} Here's a twist on the handling of "dead.letter" that I just noticed NN
} using: when a dead letter is produced, the previous contents of dead.letter
} are first appended to the file "dead.letters", leaving only the most recent
} failure in dead.letter. This is kinda nice, if only to save you a little
} editing when processing the last dead message.
}
} Anybody else like this idea? Anyone want to see it supported in mush?
} Or is there some way to do it already?
You can always
set dead = '|dead.script'
where dead.script is something similar to
#! /bin/sh
dead=$HOME/dead.letter
if [ -f $dead ]
then
touch ${dead}s # create it if it isn't there
cat $dead >> ${dead}s
fi
cat > $dead
Of course you probably want to make it a little more careful than that.
--
Bart Schaefer "And if you believe that, you'll believe anything."
-- DangerMouse
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!gatech!unmvax!ogccse!schaefer From: schaefer@ogccse.ogc.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: dead.letter twist Message-ID: <4540@ogccse.ogc.edu> Date: 3 Sep 89 23:59:20 GMT References: <24FF7EB4.54ED@drivax.UUCP> Reply-To: schaefer@ogccse.UUCP (Barton E. Schaefer) Organization: Oregon Graduate Center, Beaverton, OR Lines: 31