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Old 11-05-2009
Is it possible to get the date and time of mail which we get into our inbox using shell script?
Hello All,

I need a script which extarct the date and time of the mail which is there in our inbox...

I can export the mail copy into desktop making it as a textfile or something like that.. So is there anyway to get the date and time from that?
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Old 11-05-2009
Code:
mailboxfile=/var/spool/mail/$USER ## adjust to taste
grep '^Date: ' "$mailboxfile"

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Old 11-05-2009
Hey thanks for the reply.. but how can i get the date and time of a particular mail?

at a time i should get date and time of one mail....
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Old 11-05-2009

Use formail, part of the procmail package.

Code:
man formail

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