Re: extracting the TO username

On 16 May, Rav Ahuja wrote:
> Since I don't want to pipe the message to the program I tried the following
> instead but it didn't work:
>
> :0
> * ^TO_\/
> ! `myscript "$MATCH"`
>
> I also saw some related hints in the mailing list archive and tried the
> following, which also did not work:
>
> :0
> * ^To:[ ]*\/[^  ].*
> ! `myscript "$MATCH"`
>
> Any other suggestions?

Try | instead of !

But remember that $MATCH will contain the whole match and not
necessarily just the e-mail address, as I believe it is what you
intend...