I am having a terrible time getting this to work. I am trying to strip
the first word off the Subject line of messages that I receive from a
mailing list.
The Subject line in my mailing list messages allways looks like:
[JEEP-L:341278] Sample Text Subject Line
I would like to strip out everything starting withthe first bracket and
ending with the second.
The current recipe that I have is:
:0
* ^Subject: *JEEP-L\>.*\/.*
| formail -I"Subject: $MATCH"
INBOX.JEEP-L
You aren't matching the REGEXP exact enough. I don't use the '\/'
convention so I can't help you there, but I could do it this way which is
ugly and not efficient. One of these days I suppose I'll have to read the
MAN page on that '\/' stuff.
# Get the subject.
SUBJ=`$FORMAIL -zx 'Subject: '`
# SED it for what you want.
NEWSUBJ=`echo $SUBJ | sed -e 's/^\[.*\]//'`
:0fhw
* ^Subject:.*JEEP-L
| formail -I"Subject: $NEWSUBJ"
:0a
INBOX.JEEP-L
All it does is strip off the first of the tok untill the colon. For the
example above it would return ":341278] Sample Text Subject..." for the
subject of the message.
This should do what you want -- leave a Subject of:
Sample Text Subject Line
deleting everything starting with the first '[' and ending when it hits
the first ']' after that.
What am I doing wrong?
Not exact enough REGEXP for the MATCH.
Also, How do I get it to correctly get the message to go into the
INBOX.JEEP-L mailbox? (Currently it doesnt do that either)
PROCMAIL acts on the first action line, after it pumps your data thru
FORMAIL, and that's it. It expects to see the start of a new recipe after
that, which you didn't have. The 'a' flag tells the next recipe to be
acted on only if the previous one was true.
However, as I said, I'm sure someone else will do this in a more efficient
way with a proper '\/' MATCH and not the wasteful SED call.
Lates!
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