At 18:42 1999-08-14 +0200, Christophe Zwecker wrote:
On that first recipe, yes, it is a pipe symbol. Means "or". May I suggest
that while you're experimenting with this script that you DO NOT trashbin
everything to /dev/null, and instead drop them into a file like
'trashbin'. After a while, you can examine the contents of that file and
make sure you're not trashing things that you shouldn't. THEN you can
switch to /dev/null if when you're sure things are working.
* ^TO.*
| mimedump | grep -v Content- | >> /var/spool/mail/mailfile
If this is the default delivery you're assuming will take place after the
previous filter trashbins everything else, then the empty condition line is
unneccessary. Just don't use a condition. To clarify the relationship
between this recipe and the one preceeding, you could use the E flag (see
'man procmailrc'), though since the preceeding recipe is a stop point, that
isn't necessary. As long as you're manipulating a file, you should LOCK
this recipe. Just add a ':' at the end of the flags line. Next, eliminate
the pipe after the grep: pipe is used for redirecting into a program, and
">"/">>" are used to redirect into a file. After grep, you're not pumping
it into a program, you're just dumping the results to a file. And lastly,
add a caret '^' before Content in the grep operation. Why? Because your
grep will currently match any line containing "Content-", whether at the
start or not. You'd be better off using formail to strip these headers,
since your grep, even with the caret, won't distinguish between lines
appearing in the header, and those in the body.
:0:
| mimedump | grep -v ^Content- >> /var/spool/mail/mailfile
It shouldn't be too difficult to strip the headers with formail, but I
haven't been following your thread enough to know what the mimedump process
is doing outputting. Theoretically, the following should work, but might
not if I'm presuming incorrectly:
:0:
| mimedump | formail -b -I "Content-" >> /var/spool/mail/mailfile
Note that you could add a 'c' (copy) flag on the grep version, then add
this after that, but output it to a different file, and inspect it manually.
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