On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:05:08PM +0100, Philipp Weis wrote: > On 26 Jan 2004, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I asusme the script is running, but it's not receiving the data it > > needs, or at least not understanding it. > > > > Procmail sends the message via STDIN, so you would have to read it from > there. As you have to read the message more than once for the different > formail calls, it would probably be best to save the message in a > temporary file and read it from there afterwards. So put a > > msg=`tempfile`; cat > "$msg" > > on top of your script and replace all $@'s with $msg. Don't forget to > delete $msg when your done. >
Thanks for this, that fixed the initial probem. A follow up: I'd like to strip the '@' sign from user addresses as a minimal precaution against spam-oriented webcrawlers. so I have a variable FROM=`formail -x From: <$msg` which has the value: echo $FROM Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now, if this information were stored in a file, it would be simple to manipulate with regex's: sed 's/@/ -at- /' addressfile But I don't see an obvious way to get sed or awwk to take variable values as input. I can do the following: FROM=`formail -x"From:" < "$msg"` ; echo $FROM > tempfrom FROM=$(sed 's/@/ -at- /' tempfrom) but this strikes me as awkward. Is there a better way? thx, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
