Re: [Nmh-workers] proposed patch for shell metacharacter failure in nmh-1.7

[Paul Vixie]

Steven Winikoff wrote:
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> > My proposal is to simply edit out shell metacharacters (add # and ! like
> > David suggested) in those strings.  That seems simple and reasonable to
> > me.  Well, maybe replace them with an _ or something.
>
> For what it's worth I'd prefer the "replace them with _" option, but even
> without it this would do what I'm looking for.

would a new .mh_profile entry that gave arguments for /usr/bin/tr do the 
trick? that is, could you as a user do the #,! -> _ or even "-d #!" so 
that the default would be no editing

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P Vixie