Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:16:10 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Question List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MIME unbundler Message-ID: <013b01c25dad$26762ec0$0200000a@perimeter.co.za> References: <006d01c25b12$f191ac30$b50d030a@PATRICK><44y9a6udvc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org><005801c25cf4$1e4af640$0200000a@perimeter.co.za> <4465x6x82b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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From: "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
>> Have you ever used it in a scripted process? I cannot figure out a way
to
>> get metamail to quietly unbundle the email into a directory which I
have
>> designated for this particular email. metamail wants to prompt for
file
>> names. And when I try to override this with the -x switch it simply
>> writes the files to /tmp/.
>
> I don't generally need this, because my mailer knows how to talk to
> metamail itself, but the manual seems to claim that setting
> METAMAIL_TMPDIR will change this behaviour. The -w option may help
> you, too: it pulls file names out of headers if they're specified...
>
Lowell,
thanks again! I overlooked that environment variable METAMAIL_TMPDIR in
the man page - that's what I needed. I was hoping there would be a
command-line switch for that, but I'm sure I can deal with setting the
environment variable before executing metamail.
Yes - I was using the -w. When I use -w and -x together metamail assigns
unnamed MIME extensions by some randomly generated file name - mm.<random>
in the METAMAIL_TMPDIR . Named extensions are saved by their given names.
Thanks again for your help.
---
Regards,
Patrick O'Reilly.
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