On 7 May, Ali, Imran wrote:
| Hi .
| I have to extract sender's mail id and have to pass it to a script.
| right now i am using .
| WHOFROM = `formail -xFrom:` for this purpose but since in my mails from
| header have name along with e-mail i.e.
| From: "ali imran" <aliimran(_at_)rediffmail(_dot_)com> , so above formail
statement
| extract whole thing, i mean name as well as e mail id.
|
| But i want only email id i.e. aliimran(_at_)rediffmail(_dot_)com to be stored
in
| WHOFROM .
| How can i do it . ?
|
This will extract an email address from the From: header, which may or
may not be the sender but seems to be what you want. It will not
capture anything to WHOFROM if there is no "@" in the header (e.g. bang
paths, or local non-fully qualified addresses).
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* ^From:.*\/[^ @]+(_at_)[^ ]+
{ WHOFROM = $MATCH }
or, to eliminate the <> pair around the address
:0
* ^From:.*\/[^ @<]+(_at_)[^ >]+
{ WHOFROM = $MATCH }
N.B. whitespace within the [classes] is a <space> and a <tab>.
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