On 10 Nov 2005, at 13:13 , Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:
Timothy Luoma:
Ruud H.G. van Tol:
TjL:
How do I sort mail to $MAILDIR/YYYYMMDD ? I run date(1).
You can use the date from the From_ line (or one from some other
header
field like one of the Received header fields, or even fall back to
the date in the Date header field).
Not if I want the time and date when procmail is running, not when
the message was sent.
I think you don't know what you are talking about. My procmail is
running in about the same second in which the From_ line was
generated.
Oh come now, as someone who spent WEEKS on this list trying to get
date parsing workign correctly and ended up with about 60 lines of
procmail to parse From_, I call bull. Comapring against From_ is
currently tedious, annoying, and takes numerous passed through the
From_ line to get the data.
$ wc -l .datefix_procmail
100 .datefix_procmail
Now, granted, Date fix does a little more than simply parse From_ and
a Received header, but that is MOSTLY what it does.
Here's just the beginning of the file:
WEEKDAYS = '(S(un|at)|Mon|T(ue|hu)|Wed|Fri)'
MONTHS = '(J(an|u[ln])|Feb|Ma[ry]|A(pr|ug)|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)'
WHICHRECVD = 'by [^ ]*(mail.)?covisp.net'
YEARS = '(199[0-9]|20[0-9][0-9])'
TIMESTAMP = '([01][0-9]|2[0-3]):[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]'
# dates between 1990-2099 ok. Adjust following as needed.
# NB: DATE is only trusted from the WHICHRECVD server.
# proper Received header, should work 100% of the time.
RCVD_STAMP = "$WEEKDAYS, [0-9]+ $MONTHS $YEARS $TIMESTAMP"
# improper Received header, handles "Tue, 01" and "Tue, 1"
# ONLY use this version if your mailspool includes messages
# with improper headers on the WHICHRECVD line
# RCVD_STAMP = "$WEEKDAYS, +[0-9]+ $MONTHS $YEARS $TIMESTAMP"
# Get the received header I want the date from
# (when the message hit my mailsserver)
:0
* $ ^Received:.*$WHICHRECVD.*\/$RCVD_STAMP
{ xDATE = "$MATCH" }
Parsing From_ and handling dates is not for the faint of heart in
procmail. What I could do in four or five lines of perl takes 100
lines of procmail.
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