| Thu 97-11-13 Andreas Sikkema <sikke600(_at_)hio(_dot_)tem(_dot_)nhl(_dot_)nl>
list.procmail
|
| What I want is something like this:
| :c:
| * ^From: (_dot_)*introspective-digest(_at_)tcp(_dot_)com(_dot_)*
| 1997_11_introspective_digest
|
| What I want to do is the the folder name should be created
| automatically.
Alan't date.rc is exellent. An I made a lightwight one which is
named pm-jadate.rc, which I started using instead of calling expensive
'date'. I updated my pm-tips.txt to include this; would it work for you?
jari
6.2 Using dates
Calling `date' in your procmail script _many_ times is not a good idea.
Few times won't hurt, like below where we save one exra call.
YYYY = `date "+%Y"`
MM = `date "+%m"`
DD = `date "+%d"`
:0
* YYYY ?? ..\/..
{ YY = $MATCH }
TODAY = "$YYYY-$MM-$DD" # ISO standard time: eg. 1997-12-01
You can also look the date from the first received header that will
be same each time in your system. That could be a good alternative
if you receive lot of mail and thus extra shell call should be
avoided. There is two date packages available:
o pm-jadate.rc -- Jari's Subroutine to parse "Tue, 31 Dec 1997"
o date.rc -- Alan's procmail-lib: parse DATE or from headers
Resent-Date:, Date, and From
Saving to monthly folders
# Use any date method mentioned previously to get variables
# YYY YY MM DD defined
#
# Archive digests monthy
#
:0 c:
* ^From:.*\/mailing-list-digest(_at_)some(_dot_)net
{
MBOX = `echo $MATCH | sed -e 's/@.*//' `
:0 :
$YYYY-$MM-$MBOX
}