Re: X header in postings

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
> is it possible in 'slrn' that it expands variables in the headers like
> for example 'mutt'?
>
> For example I have in my 'muttrc':
>
> my_hdr X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/`uname -s` `cat /etc/debian_version` =
> `uname -r`
>
> You can see above in my headers that 'mutt' expands the variables.

You cannot do this directly in the .slrnrc file, but you can do it in
a file that is loaded using the "interpret" command. e.g.,

   % .slrnrc
      .
      .
   set macro_directory ("/home/michael/lib/slrn");
   interpret customheaders.sl
      .
      .

Then in /home/michael/lib/slrn/, create a file called customheaders.sl
that contains:

private define backtick_expand (cmd)
{
   variable fp = popen (cmd, "r");
   if (fp == NULL)
     return "";
   variable str = strjoin (fgetslines (fp), "");
   () = pclose (fp);
   if (str == NULL)
     return "";
   return strcompress (str, " \n");
}
private variable Kernel = backtick_expand("uname -s");
private variable Version = backtick_expand("cat /etc/debian_version");

set_string_variable ("custom_headers",
                     "X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/$Kernel $Version"$);
set_string_variable ("followup_custom_headers",
                     "X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/$Kernel $Version"$);

--John

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