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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting convert email headers' encoding? Post 302265824 by fearboy on Monday 8th of December 2008 03:48:01 PM
Old 12-08-2008
convert email headers' encoding?

hi all -

first, huge thanks to anyone who might be able to help me out with this. it's fairly esoteric, but it seems like there has to be an answer for me...

* the environment:

mac os x 10.5.x server
communigate pro (mail server)
bash script (read on)

* the brief:

my script is meant to parse a spam folder; it puts together a nicely-formatted summary email of all messages that have arrived in the past 24 hours, showing only the From: and Subject: lines. mechanically speaking, it works great.

* the problem:

encodings. some character sets (russian/cyrillic; japanese; presumably chinese) break my script pretty badly - a mailer will display them properly in the From or Subject line, but in the body of my email, it just shows them as garbage, i assume because my emails are using another character set. for example:

Subject: =?koi8-r?B?UmU6IMvVxMEg0M/FxMnNIM/UxNnIwdTYPw==?=

the script is smart enough to find the encoding and run the whole message through iconv - but that doesn't seem to help with the header lines, only the email body. which is ignored by the script, so...yeah.

* the question:

does anyone know of a way to properly convert these header lines, ideally into something like utf-8? alternatively, would it help if i specified some text encoding in the summary email itself instead?

for what it's worth, when the lines are displayed in the summaries, i've stripped out the Subject: and From: part, leaving only the actual subject and from text in place. in case that matters...

thanks for reading,
-john.
 

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SCRIPT-EMAIL(8) 					  System Administration Commands					   SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)

NAME
script-email - Amanda script to send email notifications DESCRIPTION
script-email is an Amanda script implementing the Script API. It should not be run by users directly. It sends a notification email to the addresses specified in the MAILTO property. PROPERTIES
This section lists the properties that control script-email's functionality. See amanda-scripts(7) for information on the Script API, script configuration. MAILTO List of email addresses that will receive an email on command execution. It is a multi-valued property: property "MAILTO" "amanda@domain.com" "sysadmin@domain.com" "amandauser@domain.com" EXAMPLE
In this example, script-email is scheduled to be run before the DLE, on the server. The unqualified email address amanda will be passed to the email system unchanged. The script is then attached to a dumptype, which can then be specified for any DLEs which require notification. define script-tool pre-email { comment "email me before this DLE is backed up" plugin "script-email" execute-on pre-dle-backup execute-where server property "mailto" "amanda" } define dumptype user-tar-email { user-tar script "pre-email" } SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amanda-client.conf(5), amanda-scripts(7) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ AUTHORS
Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Amanda 3.3.3 01/10/2013 SCRIPT-EMAIL(8)
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