Script email with attachments and save to Drafts?

[jamesaoverton]

Thank you for this lovely tool. I was able to get Himalaya working without trouble, but there's one thing I want to do that I can't figure out:

I want to write a shell script that creates an email and saves it to my Drafts folder with an attached file.

I think that none of the existing commands do quite what I want:

1. himalaya template new --subject ... > draft.mail will create a local file with the content I want, but does not add attachments or save to Drafts
2. himalaya --mailbox Drafts save < draft.mail saves to Drafts, but does not add attachments
3. himalaya write --attachment ... creates an email with attachments and can save to Drafts, but it's interactive not scripted

I also tried himalaya write < draft.mail which seemed promising, but I got an endless stream of (s)end, (e)dit, (l)ocal/(r)emote draft or (d)iscard? empty choice lines until I pressed Ctrl-C.

Is there some combination of Himalaya commands that will let me script a draft email with attachments?

Thanks again!

[soywod]

Thank you for this lovely tool. I was able to get Himalaya working without trouble

Happy to hear that :) big features are coming, stay tuned!

I want to write a shell script that creates an email and saves it to my Drafts folder with an attached file.

I'm afraid it is not possible right now, it is a special use case I did not think about. There is no way for the command send or save to add an attachment. I will switch this discussion to an issue, thanks for your feedback!

[soywod]

It is doable now thanks to the MML language introduced a while ago. See the FAQ: "How to compose a message?".