how to use sender or any thing in header as name of storing mail file in procmailrc

golden_boy615 · 04-19-2011, 05:23 AM

hello
I want to know how can I use sender an receiver of the email in name of file for storing mail in procmailrc. I made one but it does not work.

Quote:

SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject:` # regular field
FROM=`formail -rt -xTo:` # special case

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* ^FROM.*
| sed -e '/^To: +\?[0-9]*$/,/report/!d' > ${FROM}${SUBJECT}--`mktemp 20\`date +%y-%m-%d-%S--\`XXXXXX`

it works when I use :

Quote:

| sed -e '/^To: +\?[0-9]*$/,/report/!d' > `mktemp 20\`date +%y-%m-%d-%S--\`XXXXXX`

what is wrong with my recipe?

unSpawn · 04-21-2011, 12:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by golden_boy615

what is wrong with my recipe?

AFAIK you can use variables used for delivery something like this (do test!):

Code:

SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject:`
FROM=`formail -rt -xTo:`
DELIVERYTO=$(eval echo "${FROM}${SUBJECT}"|sed -e '/^To: +\?[0-9]*$/,/report/!d')

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* ? test ! -f ${DELIVERTO}
| touch ${DELIVERTO}; chmod 0600 ${DELIVERTO}

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 * ^FROM.*
${DELIVERTO}

but unless you have compelling reasons to do so I would strongly advice against doing this for -=ALL=- email as errors in sender address, subject line and overhead from using core utilities may adversely affect system performance or b0rk it.