At 02:49 PM 4/9/99 -0400, Randy James wrote:
I am a little new to procmail...
I am trying to take only the email address part out of the..
From: line.
I figured out how to use
* MYFROM ?? ()\/<.*
to get the entire from line after ther first < sign, but this also includes
the < sign and the > sign along with the trailing end of line character.
does anyone know how to chop off the < and > so I can just get
someone(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com?
* MYFROM ?? ()<\/[^>]+
where:
() probably not needed now, but what the heck, it's safe
< a literal match
\/ starts filling $MATCH after the "<"
[^>]+ one or more characters not a ">"
Matching will be up to, but not including, the ">".
This can still be fooled by things like:
"I am the <greatest>" <somehacker(_at_)domain(_dot_)com> (just making "<life>
difficult")
so if you really care, you need to use formail or something to chop off the
garbage. Parsing arbitrary legal addresses with procmail alone just isn't
possible, but the $MATCH will probably handle anyone you know :-)
Hope that helps,
Stan