Re: easy question

Sam Fleitman <samf(_at_)dallas(_dot_)net> wrote:
>  I've got what seems like should be an easy question:
> I want to send the 'From' line of all email messages to a script.
>
>  How do I do that?
>  Thanks in advance for any suggestions...
What did you try?

Be sure to look through the man pages of both:
  procmailrc, and
  procmailex


:0hic
|formail -z -X 'From ' |/some/script

  or with locking

:0hic:.script$LOCKEXT
|formail -z -X 'From ' |/some/script

  or with sed

:0hic:.script$LOCKEXT
|sed -e '/^From /q' |/some/script

  or have your script look for the 'From ' line itself it
  it's in a decent language.

:0hic:.script$LOCKEXT
|/some/script

  or do the From_ grab in procmail and pass it to the script
  if you might want it later in the procmailrc.

:0h
* ^\/From .*
{ FROM=$MATCH }
:0ahic:.script$LOCKEXT
|(echo "$FROM" | /some/script)


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