kmail standard templates [was: kmail lock file problems]

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday, July 17, 2010 02:45:01 pm Reinhold Rumberger did opine:

> On Saturday 17 July 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday, July 17, 2010 02:11:11 pm Reinhold Rumberger did
> 
> opine:
> > > On Saturday 17 July 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > 21:47 -5:00
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > The date line of an email's header is standardised. I don't
> > > recall the RFC's number, but I'm sure it isn't hard to find
> > > (wikipedia probably links to it).
> > > Anyhow, you can do what I suggested and write a script that
> > > extracts the Date line and applies the UTC offset - it
> > > shouldn't be too difficult.
> > > 
> > >   --Reinhold
> > 
> > I wasn't thinking of the header, but the greeting line as the
> > first line of the reply's message body, as above.
> 
> There's a macro that will pass the contents of a message to a script
> (%MSGPIPE=""). You can use that script to extract the header and
> output it after adjusting it. The output of the script will be
> inserted at the position of the macro, making it possible to always
> insert UTC.
> 
>   --Reinhold

Humm, or since the time returned now is local time, I could just add a 
"(TZ=-5:00 for UTC)" for the time zone here, which I believe would 
essentially convey the idea.  I'll give that a shot as it seems easier than 
writing a script to do it, to me anyway.

Thanks Reinhold, and with that I am back to making post holes.
Later ;-)

-- 
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