Now that I have a Christian Ebert's filter program to display HTML messages with their embedded images, I've written a macro to filter these messages
from the index and pager menus as follows:

macro index A |viewhtmlmsg\n
macro pager A |viewhtmlmsg\n

This works great.

I'd like to add a macro that does the same thing from the attach page, but
the default is to only pipe out the selected attachment. I'm looking for a command like the non-existent <save> or <write> that sends the entire
message to stdout regardless of which page you are on. I've tried <save-message> but it prompts for a location.

Is there another command that does the job or is there a way to instruct <save-message> to write to stdout? I even tried:

<save-message>/dev/stdout |viewhtmlmsg\n

but this results in a "permission denied" error. Any thoughts?

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On 2022-10-27, cjsmall wrote:

Now that I have a Christian Ebert's filter program to display HTML messages with their embedded images, I've written a macro to filter these messages from the index and pager menus as follows:

macro index A |viewhtmlmsg\n
macro pager A |viewhtmlmsg\n

This works great.

I'd like to add a macro that does the same thing from the attach page, but the default is to only pipe out the selected attachment. I'm looking for a command like the non-existent <save> or <write> that sends the entire
message to stdout regardless of which page you are on. I've tried
<save-message> but it prompts for a location.

Is there another command that does the job or is there a way to instruct
<save-message> to write to stdout? I even tried:

Hmm, I guess you have two options, you could do something like this:

macro attach A "<save-message>/tmp/viewmsg<Enter><shell-escape>viewhtmlmsg /tmp/viewmsg<Enter>"

If that's not really what you were hoping for, I think your only option
is to leave the attachment screen:

macro attach A "<exit><pipe-message>viewmsg<Enter>"

Although you could go back when you're done...

macro attach A "<exit><pipe-message>viewmsg<Enter><view-attachments>"

Tavis.

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On Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 5:27:55 PM UTC-7, Tavis Ormandy wrote:

On 2022-10-27, cjsmall wrote:

Now that I have a Christian Ebert's filter program to display HTML messages with their embedded images, I've written a macro to filter these messages from the index and pager menus as follows:

macro index A |viewhtmlmsg\n
macro pager A |viewhtmlmsg\n

This works great.

I'd like to add a macro that does the same thing from the attach page, but the default is to only pipe out the selected attachment. I'm looking for a command like the non-existent <save> or <write> that sends the entire message to stdout regardless of which page you are on. I've tried
<save-message> but it prompts for a location.

Is there another command that does the job or is there a way to instruct
<save-message> to write to stdout? I even tried:

Hmm, I guess you have two options, you could do something like this:

macro attach A "<save-message>/tmp/viewmsg<Enter><shell-escape>viewhtmlmsg /tmp/viewmsg<Enter>"

If that's not really what you were hoping for, I think your only option
is to leave the attachment screen:

macro attach A "<exit><pipe-message>viewmsg<Enter>"

Although you could go back when you're done...

macro attach A "<exit><pipe-message>viewmsg<Enter><view-attachments>"

Tavis.

Two great suggestions Tavis. I like the exit the attach page idea since it doesn't create a temporary file that needs to be cleaned up.

Thank you for helping me see outside the box! :-)

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