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29 <!-- Fill in your name for FIRSTNAME and SURNAME. -->
30 <!ENTITY dhfirstname "<firstname>Martin F.</firstname>">
31 <!ENTITY dhsurname "<surname>Krafft</surname>">
32 <!-- Please adjust the date whenever revising the manpage. -->
33 <!ENTITY dhdate "<date>September 30, 2007</date>">
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37 <!ENTITY dhemail "<email>madduck@madduck.net</email>">
38 <!ENTITY dhusername "martin f. krafft">
39 <!ENTITY dhucpackage "<refentrytitle>MAILPLATE</refentrytitle>">
40 <!ENTITY dhpackage "mailplate">
42 <!ENTITY debian "<productname>Debian</productname>">
43 <!ENTITY gnu "<acronym>GNU</acronym>">
44 <!ENTITY gpl "&gnu; <acronym>GPL</acronym>">
54 <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
64 <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
66 <refpurpose>reformat mail drafts according to templates</refpurpose>
70 <command>&dhpackage;</command>
74 <arg choice="plain"><option>--auto</option></arg>
75 <arg choice="plain"><option>-a</option></arg>
80 <arg choice="plain"><option>--menu</option></arg>
81 <arg choice="plain"><option>-m</option></arg>
88 <arg choice="plain"><option>--new</option></arg>
89 <arg choice="plain"><option>-n</option></arg>
94 <arg choice="plain"><option>--editor</option></arg>
95 <arg choice="plain"><option>-e</option></arg>
100 <arg choice="plain"><option>--keep-unknown</option></arg>
101 <arg choice="plain"><option>-k</option></arg>
104 <arg choice="plain"><option>--verbose</option></arg>
105 <arg choice="plain"><option>-v</option></arg>
108 <arg choice="plain"><option>--debug</option></arg>
109 <arg choice="plain"><option>-d</option></arg>
111 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>message file</replaceable></arg>
114 <command>&dhpackage;</command>
118 <arg choice="plain"><option>--auto</option></arg>
119 <arg choice="plain"><option>-a</option></arg>
124 <arg choice="plain"><option>--menu</option></arg>
125 <arg choice="plain"><option>-m</option></arg>
130 <arg choice="plain"><option>--keep-unknown</option></arg>
131 <arg choice="plain"><option>-k</option></arg>
134 <arg choice="plain"><option>--verbose</option></arg>
135 <arg choice="plain"><option>-v</option></arg>
138 <arg choice="plain"><option>--debug</option></arg>
139 <arg choice="plain"><option>-d</option></arg>
141 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>< message data</replaceable></arg>
144 <command>&dhpackage;</command>
146 <arg choice="plain"><option>--help</option></arg>
147 <arg choice="plain"><option>-h</option></arg>
151 <command>&dhpackage;</command>
153 <arg choice="plain"><option>--version</option></arg>
154 <arg choice="plain"><option>-V</option></arg>
159 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
161 <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> is a programme that reformats mail
162 drafts according to a given template. The template may be specified on
163 the command line, but mailplate can also use control information from
164 the template files to automatically select an appropriate template
165 (<option>--auto</option>). A selection menu feature is planned
166 (<option>--menu</option>). </para>
168 <para> Applying a template means obtainined select data from an existing
169 mail message (unless <option>--new</option> is specified) and to fill it
170 into appropriate slots in the template. Messages are processed in three
171 parts: headers, body, and signature. </para>
173 <para> When <option>--new</option> is given, an empty instantiation of the
174 template is written to stdout. At the moment, <option>--new</option>
175 cannot be combined with <option>--editor</option>.</para>
177 <para> The template can define two types of headers: mandatory and
178 preservatory. Mandatory headers take precedence over headers in the
179 existing message and thus overwrite them. Preservatory headers instruct
180 mailplate to port their data from the existing mail message. Headers in
181 the existing message but not defined in the template are dropped, unless
182 <option>--keep-unknown</option> is given. </para>
184 <para> Body and signature are separated by '-- '. If this sentinel is not
185 found, no signature is extracted. Templates can be interpolated and data
186 filled into slots. Helper slots are filled with the output of helper
187 commands (which must be defined in the configuration), environment
188 variable slots are just that, and mail variable slots can be filled with
189 data obtained by running regexps or commands over the message. </para>
191 <para> This script can be run in multiple ways: </para>
194 <listitem><para> As a filter, it applies a template to data from stdin
195 and writes the result to stdout. </para></listitem>
197 <listitem><para> Given a file, it modifies the file, unless it cannot
198 write to the file, in which case it writes to stdout.
201 <listitem><para> When <option>--editor</option> is passed, the script
202 spawns <command>sensible-editor</command> on the result. It may thus
203 be used as the editor for your mail user agent. </para></listitem>
210 <title>OPTIONS</title>
212 <para> These programs follow the usual &gnu; command line syntax, with
213 long options starting with two dashes (`--'): </para>
217 <term><option>--auto</option>,
221 <para>Turn on template auto-discovery.</para>
225 <term><option>--menu</option>,
229 <para>Choose from a list of templates (not yet implemented)</para>
233 <term><option>--new</option>,
237 <para>Create a new message.</para>
241 <term><option>--editor</option>,
245 <para>Spawn editor once template is applied.</para>
249 <term><option>--keep-unknown</option>,
253 <para>Preserve mail headers not specified in template.</para>
257 <term><option>--verbose</option>,
261 <para>Write informational messages to stderr.</para>
265 <term><option>--debug</option>,
269 <para>Start a debugger after initialisation.</para>
274 <option>--help</option>,
278 <para>Show summary of options.</para>
283 <option>--version</option>,
287 <para>Show version of program.</para>
294 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
295 <para>/usr/share/doc/mailplate/README</para>
299 <title>AUTHOR</title>
301 <para>This manual page was written by &dhusername; &dhemail; with help
302 from Carl Fürstenberg.</para>