Hi, Alain!
Alain Bench wrote 31 lines:
> Hello Wolfgang, thank you for the precise report.
You are welcome.
> On Friday, July 1, 2005 at 3:30:26 PM +0200, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> >| send2-hook . 'my_hdr From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
> > observe: From IS NOT SET!
> That is not a bug, things are designed like that. At the time
> send2-hooks are triggered, the sender of the currently composed mail is
> already fixed. It's too late for changing sender via $from, via
> $reverse_name, or even via "my_hdr From:". In fact it's too late for any
> "my_hdr".
Hmmm. Let me see ...
- At the time send2-hook is triggered, the sender is fixed,
no way (except <edit-from>) to change it. Ok.
- The manual (via F1) says:
| send2-hook is matched every time a message is changed, either by
| editing it, or by using the compose menu to change its recipients or
| subject. send2-hook is executed after send-hook, and can, e.g., be
| used to set parameters such as the ``$sendmail'' variable depending on
| the message's sender address.
which seems true, according to my observation.
That looks like the manual schould mention <edit-from>:
However, you cannot set "From: " with send2-hook except using 'send2-hook .
"push <edit-from><kill-line>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<Enter>"', since
send2-hook runs too late for any other method.
Otherwise a reader might get the impression that the main
difference between send2-hook ("is matched every time a message
is changed") and send-hook ("[is] only executed ONCE after
getting the initial list of recipients") is how often it's
executed. That at least was my motivation for using send2-hook:
have From automatically updated if I change recipients.
- Yet something *does* happen, for on the next try (recipient2)
send2-hook *does* set the recipient. Even though that is a
completely new mail, the old one being aborted. Is that really
the correct behaviour? To me it looks like data leaking
from one mail to another ...
> The only way a send2-hook has to change the sender is via
> pushing <edit-from>:
> | send2-hook . "push <edit-from><kill-line>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<Enter>"
> The advantage in return is that a send2-hook pattern can depend on
> the sender.
Depend on the sender to be what Unchanged by "my_hdr From: "
directives, as put into the mail header by the writer, as
more-or-less immutable, even if you should run extensive commands
in send2-hook?
It probably is obvious to you, to me it's not, and maybe it
should be documented.
-Wolfgang
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