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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: non-interactive MH
Message-ID: <1606@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 88 01:51:18 GMT
References: <7014@sol.ARPA>
Reply-To: mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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You can easily make comp, repl, dist, forw "noninteractive" by specifying
-whatnowproc mh/send to those programs. Assuming that those
programs somehow get a sendable draft file, specifying -whatnowproc as
above will just send it directly.

Here's an excerpt from a digest service script run nightly via at(1), just
so you can get the idea of how to use forw -digest:

	....
pick +lotsbb -after "$bb-timestamp"
forw +lotsbb select -digest LOTS-BBOARD -whatnowproc /usr/new/mh/send -form ~/bb-digester/bbdigestcomps -filter /usr/new/lib/mh/mhl.digest
	....

The draft format file ~/bb-digester/bbdigestcomps is the same as
lib/mh/digestcomps except that I hardwired the names of the people on the
distribution list and removed the hardwired "From:" entry for various
obscure reasons... You can also use the default draft format file in
lib/mh/digestcomps in conjunction with distribution lists in your mh-alias
file. 

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	    Niels Mayer -- hplabs!mayer -- mayer@hplabs.hp.com
		       Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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