On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:40:32 +0200, Mika Perttula
<Mika(_dot_)Perttula(_at_)hut(_dot_)fi> wrote:
I would like construct procmail recipe, which extracts the other party
email-address from the body of the message and sends auto-response
message to that address. Can you help me on this? Please answer
privately too (Mika(_dot_)Perttula(_at_)hut(_dot_)fi).
From the +body+? Like this you mean? This assumes that the very first
line of the message should contain the string "Body-Reply-To: (reply
address)" -- if this is not desired then perhaps you can describe more
exactly how you hope to know which part of the body to extract the
reply address from.
:0ciw
* B ?? ^^Body-Reply-To:[ ]*\/[^ ].*
| echo "To: $MATCH\
\
From: Runaway Responder <nobody(_at_)hut(_dot_)fi>\
\
\
Your message was received and forwarded as appropriate. \
\
Thanks for participating. Don't reply to this message. Thanks." | \
$SENDMAIL $SENDMAILFLAGS -t
The backslashitis required to produce the wanted output is certainly
not something for the weak of stomach. Procmail's backslash parsing is
a huge crock. The above example will produce the following output:
To: (whatever ended up in $MATCH)
From: Runaway Responder <nobody(_at_)hut(_dot_)fi>
Your message was received and forwarded as appropriate.
Thanks for participating. Don't reply to this message. Thanks.
I'd normally use multiple echo's, I just wanted to show that it can be
done with only one.
If you just want a normal autoresponder, the procmailex(5) manual page
has some suitable-looking exanples.
Hope this helps,
/* era */
One idea would be to use "auxiliary headers", like news.answers FAQs
and most anon servers. Like this:
From: you really
Message-Id: <moo(_at_)bar(_dot_)baz(_dot_)quux>
To: anon server
Really-To: final destination
Real-Subject: subject
Real body ...
You can extract these headers in a couple of interesting ways. The
above recipe could be amended to look for the desired header in any of
the first cluster of lines before the first empty line:
* ^^(^.$)*Body-reply-to:[ ]*\/[^ ].*
Or you could simply ditch the real headers and by happy coincidence
have the auxiliary headers "promoted" to be the new headers of the
message:
:0fhi
| /bin/true # just discard original headers
... and then operate on that.
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