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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Parse Unix Mail Post 302103220 by its-ashish on Wednesday 17th of January 2007 04:47:05 AM
Old 01-17-2007
Parse Unix Mail
Hi,

This is my first thread on this forum.

I have an urgent requirement where I have to write a shell script to
- scan through the mails one by one,
- pick up the time when that mail is received,
- parse through the contents of that mail and pick up relevant information and load it into the database, and finally
- copy this mail to some other location.

The time the mail in received in obtained from the 1st line

for e.g.
From abc@xyz.com Mon Jan 15 11:18:18 2007

I need to pick up the time - "Mon Jan 15 11:18:18 2007"

After parsing through the contents (subject of the mail), which I think I can manage, I need to copy the mail into a different location, so that this mail is not processed once again.

This process would need to run every night.

Can this be done using shell scripts ??

Alternately, is there any way the mails can be split into individual mails and copied into separate files? I would need the header information in this as well as I need to pick the timestamp of the mail-received time.

Any help would be appreciated. I am short of time.

Many Thanks.

Ashish
 

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claws-mail-pgpmime

CLAWS-MAIL-PGPMIME(1)					     CLAWS-MAIL-PGPMIME Manual					     CLAWS-MAIL-PGPMIME(1)

NAME

       claws-mail-pgpmime - Handling of PGP/MIME signed and/or encrypted mails.

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the claws-mail-pgpmime plugin.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       claws-mail-pgpmime is a plugin (loadable module) for the Claws Mail mailer.

       This plugin allows decrypting mails, verifying signatures and sign or encrypt your own mails using PGP/MIME.

       It requires GnuPG and GPGME.

USAGE

       Before using a plugin you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup.

       For this you must go "Configuration" menu on main window toolbar, open "Plugins..."  dialog, click on the "Load plugin..."  button and
       select the plugin file, named pgpmime.so, and press the "Open" button.

FILES

       /usr/lib/claws-mail/plugins/pgpmime.so
	   The loadable module for claws-mail-pgpmime.

       ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
	   Configuration file for GnuPG, read man gpg for details.

BUGS

       Please use reportbug claws-mail-pgpmime for reporting Debian bugs for this package.

       The upstream BTS can be found at http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi.

SEE ALSO

       claws-mail(1), claws-mail-extra-plugins(1), gpg(1)

AUTHORS

       The Claws Mail Team <theteam@claws-mail.org>
	   Wrote the claws-mail-pgpmime plugin.

       Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 Ricardo Mones

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at
       your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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