From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-11-15T17:45:12+09:00
Subject: hoe send_email task (Was: Re: directory_watcher 0.1.1)

On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:02 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Nov 13, 2006, at 4:53 PM, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Eric Hodel wrote:
>>>> Or just use Hoe and run rake release.  Drops an email.txt ready  
>>>> for pasting into your email client of choice.
>>> okay - __that__ is cool!
>>> can you specify stdout?
>>>   rake release |mail -s traits ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
>>
>> No.  Also, the first line of email.txt is the subject.
>>
>>> that would make those of us that are truely lazy release like  
>>> wildfire.
>>
>> A send_email task wouldn't work cross-platform.  Not everybody's  
>> machines are correctly set up to send email.
>
> sure, but
>
>   cmd = "rake release|mail -s #{ the_subject } ruby-talk@ruby- 
> lang.org"
>
>   system cmd or warn "you system is wonky"

Well, it might just send mail into the bit-bucket:

$ mail drbrain@segment7.net
Subject: test
test
EOT
$ echo $?
0
$ mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93.  Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/drbrain": 1 message 1 new
 >N  1 MAILER-DAEMON@pride-  Wed Nov 15 00:43  69/2492  "Undelivered  
Mail Retu"
&

> might be ok ;-)

If you can fix that, we await your patch at:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1513&atid=5923

;)

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant

http://trackmap.robotcoop.com