Hi:
I am trying to comfigure procmail/formail do perform what seems
relatively simple tasks. Here is what I am trying to do.
Our web server does not allow CGI scripts by students. Instead, form
submission data from web pages are mailed to the student. I want to take data
from a form submission and strip the mail header from it. Then, I want to
run my program on the mail message. My program will take the data and
parse it into text separated by commas. (I plan to import this data into
a spreadsheet)
So far, I have been able to capture the incoming email message into a
folder of my choice. I read all the examples I could get my hands on but
I cannot seem to configure the recipe correctly.
Here is what I have so far:
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* ^Subject: Survey
| /usr/local/bin/formail -fk -X Date: | $HOME/.PROCMAIL/procsurvey \
EE2014_TEST
the procsurvey is the file I wrote to read stdin and send the processed
data to stdout.
EE2014_TEST is a mail folder that I have. Ultimately, I want to have the
data saved into a different text file.
I cannot seem to find a detailed description of the individual parameters
for either procmail or formail.
Can you assist me here?
Regards,
Jonathan P. Day
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." -Gen. George Patton
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