Re: sending messages from script/command line

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:48:58 +0200 lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: 
>
> l> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>>> 
>>> There's no built-in way to do what you describe, so your function is
>>> probably the best solution.
>
> l> Anyone else who might need it, feel free to use it :)
>
> I would be OK with putting it under contrib/ at least, if you want to
> make it a patch submission.

Sure, why not --- I don't know how to do that, though.  And I would
really like to come up with something better: "better" meaning something
that optionally includes posting styles.  I'd like to be able to specify
headers and the body and give it a flag telling gnus whether I want to
edit the mail before sending it or not.

A tool like mailx would do, and I could send a Bcc to myself and use
some splitting rules to put the messages into the right groups ... but
isn't that something that gnus should be able to do?

> l> Since I am at this:  This only works when gnus has already been started.
> l> What would I do to make sure that it's started if it isn't?  Is there a
> l> way to check whether gnus is running from the command line/script, or
> l> could/should I write a wrapper around 'my-gnus-group-mail that starts
> l> gnus in case it's not started already?
>>> 
>>> Since Gnus is not a daemon, it's hard to do what you describe.  Gnus is
>>> more like a set of functions that agree upon the same buffer formats :)
>
> l> Maybe I can make a wrapper function that checks the buffer list for a
> l> buffer named "*Gnus*" and starts gnus when there's no such buffer ...
>
> That may work.  It's probably more robust if Gnus does something on
> startup to indicate that it's been started, and something else when it
> quits.  But I'll leave it to Lars, I don't have a strong opinion.

Let's see what he says --- perhaps this is even easy to do.  Before I
could come up with something better, I'd have to try to figure out how
gnus works.  Maybe it's not possible to change the posting style on the
fly ... and if it's changed, it would have to be restored ...


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