Re: problem filtering the body of a message

Dear David,

1.  I think you need a 'c' on your second recipe, otherwise your third
will only be reached when the second fails.  Not what you want I think. 
BUT see 3 below,

2. When you test this does the script set the WEB variable as you would
expect?

3.  You could shorten the script as follows...

:0
* ^Subject:.*Contest Entry
{
         :0 c:
         contest
 
         :0 B
         * ()\/^http.*
         {
                 WEB = $MATCH
                 | echo "$WEB" >> $HOME/contest.txt
         }
 }

"David G. Warner" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working with procmail for a few days on a problem, but I haven't
> been able to get it to work, and i had hoped one of you might know the
> answer.  I searched through a number of online resources, but couldn't
> find the solution to my problem.
>
> Okay, here's the situation.  As part of my job, I receive some emails from
> students with the subject "Contest Entry."  The body of these messages has
> two lines, a name on the first line and a URL on the second.  So the
> message looks something like this:
>
> Subject: Contest Entry
> David Warner
> http://cec.wustl.edu/~dgw1
>
> What I want to do is save the entire message in a folder called procmail
> (which I know how to do) and parse the message body and append the URL to
> a file called contest.txt in my home directory (this is the part I don't
> know how to do).  I've included my most recent recent recipe for this, but
> it doesn't work.  Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> dgw
>
> :0
> * ^Subject:.*Contest Entry
> {
>
>         :0 c:
>         contest
>
>         :0 B
>         * ()\/^http.*
>         {
>                 WEB = $MATCH
>         }
>
>         :0 bwi: $HOME/contest.txt.lock
>         | echo "$WEB" >> $HOME/contest.txt
>
> }
>
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> |  CS101 Head Teaching Assistant       |
> |  Washington University in St. Louis  |
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> |  Phone: (314) 935-0053               |
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