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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Email formatting Post 42868 by norsk hedensk on Wednesday 5th of November 2003 05:43:52 PM
Old 11-05-2003
Email formatting
ok, does anyone know how i can strip out fields i dont want from a mail spool file (eg: /var/mail/usermailbox) and dump to standard output (or file with > filename) ?? i tried using a bunch of grep -v 's but i realized that has two main problems, first of all, if anyone types the text im grepping out it will get removed, so i could tell grep to do it only once with -m 1 and so on, but there is going to be many emails in the mailbox.

so what i need is something like this:

Code:
From joe@farragutmarine.com  Tue Nov  4 22:34:54 2003
Return-Path: <joe@farragutmarine.com>
Delivered-To: main@farragutmarine.com
Received: from 192.168.1.103 (dynip4 [192.168.1.103])
        by farragutmarine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD261700B
        for <main@farragutmarine.com>; Tue,  4 Nov 2003 22:34:54 -0500 (EST)
From: joe@farragutmarine.com
To: main@farragutmarine.com
Subject: This is a test
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:12:40 -0500
User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200311042312.40075.joe@farragutmarine.com>

This is a test, lets see if i can get this thing working.

now please keep in mind that there will be multiple emails in the mailbox. the fields in BOLD are the fields id like to keep.


i dont expect anyone to write out a whole script for me, just someone to point me in the right direction.

thanks !
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

forward

FORWARD(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual							FORWARD(5)

NAME

     forward -- mail forwarding instructions

DESCRIPTION

     The .forward file contains a list of mail addresses or programs that the user's mail should be redirected to.  If the file is not present,
     then no mail forwarding will be done.  Mail may also be forwarded as the standard input to a program by prefixing the line with the normal
     shell pipe symbol (|).  If arguments are to be passed to the command, then the entire line should be enclosed in quotes.  For security rea-
     sons, the .forward file must be owned by the user the mail is being sent to, or by root, and the user's shell must be listed in /etc/shells.

     For example, if a .forward file contained the following lines:

	   nobody@FreeBSD.org
	   "|/usr/bin/vacation nobody"

     Mail would be forwarded to <nobody@FreeBSD.org> and to the program /usr/bin/vacation with the single argument nobody.

     If a local user address is prefixed with a backslash character, mail is delivered directly to the user's mail spool file, bypassing further
     redirection.

     For example, if user chris had a .forward file containing the following lines:

	   chris@otherhost
	   chris

     One copy of mail would be forwarded to chris@otherhost and another copy would be retained as mail for local user chris.

FILES

     $HOME/.forward  The user's forwarding instructions.

SEE ALSO

     aliases(5), mailaddr(7), sendmail(8)

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