<20.10.23.00.20> it worked! now for something a bit more natural

SO the little scriptlet in the last phlog(?) post did its job well, but using
it involved writing a file, saving it, then running 'phlog name-of-the-file'.
As i want my messages to be somewhat throwaway, i would cd /tmp (tmpfs) so the
files don't persist.

But now this alternative makes things a bit different:

   #!/usr/bin/env bash
   # phlog

   TMP=`mktemp`
   < /dev/tty vim $TMP

   {
       echo "Subject: $@"
       echo "To: [email protected]"
       echo "From: mcol <[email protected]>"
       echo ""
       cat $TMP
       echo ""
   } | msmtp -a personal -t

Now, when i run 'phlog', vim is opened, i can write whatever, then when i save
and close vim, the saved text is sent off immediately into the gopher hole.
neat :)


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