Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 01:13:18 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: procmail/formail syntax question Message-ID: <20051023221317.GA1211@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20051023214939.GB30009@teddy.fas.com> References: <20051023190951.GA25702@teddy.fas.com> <20051023200717.GB82057@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20051023214939.GB30009@teddy.fas.com>
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On 2005-10-23 17:49, stan <stanb@panix.com> wrote: >On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:07:17PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: >>On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:09:51PM -0400, stan wrote: >>> I'm trying to get procmail to rewrite the TO: header. I've tried something like: >>> >>> TO=`formail -xTo:` >> >> I think this command is expanded only once, and gives an empty string >> because you didn't give formail any input. >> >>> # is moved to "viruses". >>> :0: >>> * ^X-Virus-Status: Yes >>> | formail -I "To: is_virus, $TO" >> <snip> >>> But this does not seem to be working. >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >> >> Why don't you put it in an appropriate mailbox directly? E.g: >> >> :0: >> * ^X-Virus-Status: Yes >> /home/username/Mail/virus >> >> :0: >> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes >> /home/username/Mail/probably_spam > > That is _exactly_ wht _I_ do. However this is for a friend who recieves > mail on this machine, then uses IMAP to fecth it to a Windoze box where he > reads it with Outlook. He aparently does not now how to filter within > Outlook on anything but the subject. > > So, I need to be able to rewrite the subject. Yes it's dumb but.... ``Much confusion in you I sense, young Jedi.'' If you want to rewrite the *SUBJECT* of the messages, then why are you trying to rewrite the *RECIPIENT* header? Having said that, I think that what you're missing is the 'f' option in the rule that pipes mail to formail and that you don't really need formail for something as simple: :0 Hf * X-Virus-Status: Yes | sed -e 's/^[sS]ubject:[[:space:]]\+/Subject: [virus] '
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