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diff --git a/interfaces/email/catmutt b/interfaces/email/catmutt new file mode 100755 index 0000000..601f14f --- /dev/null +++ b/interfaces/email/catmutt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +# catmutt - wrap mutt allowing mboxes read from stdin. +# +# Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Moritz Barsnick <barsnick (at) gmx (dot) net>, +# 2009 William Trevor King <wking (at) drexel (dot) edu> +# +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License +# version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software +# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA +# +# developed from grepm-0.6 +# http://www.barsnick.net/sw/grepm.html + +PROGNAME=`basename "$0"` +export TMPDIR="${TMPDIR-/tmp}" # used by mktemp +umask 077 + +if [ $# -gt 0 ] && [ "$1" = "--help" ]; then + echo 1>&2 "Usage: ${PROGNAME} [--help] mutt-arguments" + echo 1>&2 "" + echo 1>&2 "Read a mailbox file from stdin and opens it with mutt." + echo 1>&2 "For example: cat somefile.mbox | ${PROGNAME}" + exit 0 +fi + +# Note: the -t/-p options to mktemp are deprecated for mktemp (GNU +# coreutils) 7.1 in favor of --tmpdir but the --tmpdir option does not +# exist yet for my 6.10-3ubuntu2 coreutils +TMPFILE=`mktemp -t catmutt.XXXXXX` || exit 1 + +trap "rm -f ${TMPFILE}; exit 1" 1 2 3 13 15 + +cat > "${TMPFILE}" || exit 1 + +# Now that we've read in the mailbox file, reopen stdin for mutt/user +# interaction. When in a pipe we're not technically in a tty, so use +# a little hack from "greno" at +# http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-programming-scripting/98607-bash-stdin-problem.html +tty="/dev/`ps -p$$ --no-heading | awk '{print $2}'`" +exec < ${tty} + +if [ `wc -c "${TMPFILE}" | awk '{print $1}'` -gt 0 ]; then + echo 1>&2 "Calling mutt on temporary mailbox file (${TMPFILE})." + mutt -R -f "${TMPFILE}" "$@" +else + echo 1>&2 "Empty mailbox input." +fi + +rm -f "${TMPFILE}" && echo 1>&2 "Deleted temporary mailbox file (${TMPFILE})." |