Re: Adding to a field?

> On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Doug Hughes wrote:
>
> > >    What the best way to add to a field with procmail, formail?  I 
> > > want procmail to send some messages to formail so it can add an 
> > > additional address to the Reply-To field. E.g.:
> > >
> > >    Orig:
> > >    Reply-To: john(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com
> > >
> > >    New:
> > >    Reply-To: john(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com, 
> > > mary(_at_)somewherelse(_dot_)com
> > >
> > >    Is there a smooth way to do this?
> > How about this one?
> >
> > :0 H
> > * ^Reply-To: john(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com
> > |$FORMAIL -rt -I "Reply-To: john(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com, 
> > mary(_at_)somewherelse(_dot_)com" | $SENDMAIL -oi -t
>
>       Yeah that's partially what I want, but I didn't give enough
> detail. :) I want it to somehow extract or create (if needed) the variable
> Reply-To: in the original message and add in the hard coded one (e.g.
> "mary").  So it's more like:
>       :0
>       * ^TOmessagepool
>       {
>               :0
>               extract/create (if needed) the Reply-To: and add in the 
>                       "mary" or "archive" 
>       }
How about this:
:0 H
* ^TOmessagepool
{
        REP=`formail -x Reply-To:`
        :0 a
        |$FORMAIL -rt -I "Reply-To: mary(_at_)somewherelse(_dot_)com, $REP" | 
$SENDMAIL -oi -t
}

This may generate an occassionally lonely trailing comma, but it shouldn't
matter (in the case where there is no previously existing Reply-To

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Doug Hughes                                     Engineering Network Services
System/Net Admin                                Auburn University
                        doug(_at_)eng(_dot_)auburn(_dot_)edu