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Re: Examples website?

2000-11-01 11:29:46
"Datona Communications" wrote:
Does anyone out there know of a website which has example on how to =
configure procmail?  

http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips.html

http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html

                       I am actually looking for an example which will =
show me how to pull a variable from an email and pass it off to a perl =
script or add the variable to a text file.  The example variable would =
be in the body of the email and would be something like:

bla bla bla:  123456

    :0bi
    * some conditions here
    BLABLA=| sed -n -e '/^bla bla bla/s/^[^:]*: *//p'

And now a few questions:
    What if multiple lines meet the criteria?  
        The above assumes there's just one, or that you don't mind
        having a variable that contains newlines.

    Is the entire rest of the line to be treated as the value?  
        The above assumes 'yes'.

    Can the 123456 part contain ':' characters?  
        The above assumes that it might.

It would look for that line in the email and take the "123456" and pass =
that off to a script or a text file.

http://www.procmail.org/jari/pm-tips-body.html#quoting_passing_values_to_an

If you want to pass it to a text file...

    :0 cb:
    * some conditions here
    | sed -n -e '/^bla bla bla/s/^[^:]*://p' >> /path/to/file

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or consequential loss caused by relying on this information.  Sorry.
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