> I am getting a lot of email with munged dates in it and I > would like to fix them by grabbing them with procmail and > passing them to a perl program to update the Date: string. > > First, is this possible? Can I pass an email to perl and > then update it in the mail spool? If I can't, then I > probably won't have any real perl questions about how to > find all the permutations and combinations making up bad > dates! > > TIA! > Dennis >
gh> I had a similar question once and this was the answer I haven't tried: > > From: Eskimo North Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:43 PM > > To: Gary Hawkins > > Subject: Re: .forward > > > > > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Gary Hawkins wrote: > > > > > Can .forward send mail to a perl script instead of procmail? > > > > > > Only *through* procmail. Only a few individual things can be run directly > > from .forward; "procmail_wrapper" is one of them (as is elm's "filter", or > > "vacation"). > > Can I do something like this in .procmailrc? A single recipe: > > :0 > | myPerlFilter.pl To be sure, probably better as: :0 | $HOME/myPerlFilter.pl (Or whichever actual directory you place it in.) --------- gh> So how does the mail get into a variable in the script? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
