[Alpine-info] automated sending

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Doug Barton wrote:


> Mike Miller wrote:

>

>> Is it possible to send text using Alpine but without having the alpine 

>> interface pop up?  This brings up Alpine:

>>

>> echo "this is a test" | alpine person at wherever.com

>>

>> Is there a way to make it automatically send?

>

> Have a custom pinerc file with the commands to send the message and use 

> the -p argument to alpine.



That's an interesting idea but I don't know what commands cause Alpine to 
send the message without opening the interface.  Is the trick to use the 
"initial-keystroke-list" or the "-I" argument?  See below. 
Unfortunately, it says "You cannot include any input to the composer in 
the initial keystrokes," and I think that means that this won't work:

-I ^X,y

The idea there was to say "send (Ctrl-X), Yes".

Mike


-I a,b,c,...
     Initial Keystrokes: Alpine will execute this comma-separated sequence 
of commands upon startup. This allows users to get Alpine to start in any 
of its menus/screens. You cannot include any input to the composer in the 
initial keystrokes. The key <Return> is represented by a ``CR'' in the 
keystroke list; the spacebar is designated by the letters ``SPACE''. 
Control keys are two character sequences beginning with ``^'', such as 
``^I''. A tab character is ``TAB''. Function keys are ``F1'' - ``F12'' and 
the arrow keys are ``UP'', ``DOWN'', ``LEFT'', and ``RIGHT''. A 
restriction is that you can't mix function keys and character keys in this 
list even though you can, in some cases, mix them when running Alpine. A 
user can always use only character keys in the startup list even if he or 
she is using function keys normally, or vice versa. If an element in this 
list is a string of characters surrounded by double quotes (") then it 
will be expanded into the individual characters in the string, excluding 
the double quotes.

     Configuration equivalent: initial-keystroke-list