Re: [PATCH] Added get sendmail from .mailrc

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On Jan 27, 2014, at 17:15, Jeff King wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 01:46:50PM +0400, Brilliantov Kirill Vladimirovich wrote:

+	if (!defined $smtp_server) {
+		my $mailrc = File::HomeDir->my_home . "/.mailrc";

Actually, based on the output of "man mail", this should probably be something more like

  my $mailrc = $ENV{'MAILRC'} || "$ENV{'HOME'}/.mailrc";

which takes into account any MAILRC setting and also avoids the use of File::HomeDir.

+			while (<FILE>) {
+			    chomp;
+			    if (/set sendmail=.*/) {
+				my @data = split '"';
+				$smtp_server = $data[1];
+				last;
+			    }

Your split is a rather unusual way to do the parsing, and it took me a
minute to figure it out. It might be more obvious as:

 if (/set sendmail="(.*)"/) {
         $smtp_server = $1;
         last;
 }

I do not know anything about the mailrc format, nor does it seem to be
well documented. Are the double-quotes required? If not, then the above regex can easily make them optional. I also wonder if any whitespace is
allowed.

From "man mail":

set (se) With no arguments, prints all variable values. Otherwise,
         sets option.  Arguments are of the form option=value (no space
         before or after `=') or option.  Quotation marks may be placed
         around any part of the assignment statement to quote blanks or
         tabs, i.e. ``set indentprefix="->"''

My version of "man mail" does not list all the variables that can be set but it refers to "The Mail Reference Manual" document which presumably does. I did find this [1] that documents many of the available variables including the sendmail one. I then tried this:

cat <<EOF > /tmp/shim
#!/bin/sh
exec cat
EOF
chmod a+x /tmp/shim
cat <<EOF > /tmp/testrc
  se   send"mail"=/tm"p/"shim
EOF
echo 'testing' | MAILRC=/tmp/testrc mail -s test nobody

And to my surprise the contents of the new message were cat'd out to the terminal rather than being sent. So clearly there's some room for improvement with the "set", white space and quote checking.

[1] http://www.cs.fsu.edu/sysinfo/mail/mailrc.html

--Kyle
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