Hi, The problem is really simple.
I receive email on my long commute, and I'd like to be able to send some of the more important messages to my cellphone, so I can make the necessary calls. The trouble is that my cellphone can only receive about 100 characters in the body of the email. So my plan is to use a procmail recipe to filter out the important messages and send the subject and the sender's name in the subject line of the email to the cellphone; then the body of the email will have the first 100 characters from the body of the original email. I am trying to use formail to extract the "From: " and "Subject" headers, and then use tr to put them one line by eliminating the newline. However, I am having no success in this. I have read the manuals and tried all the options. Obviously, this is not working. Could somebody provide some pointers on how to retrieve two headers from the email and combine them into one line? Even better if somebody has a more eloquent solution :-}. Here's what I am trying to do. Only the relevant lines are shown. Original email received by my machine in the office: ---------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Urgent issue Andy, We need to discuss this issue with the management immediately. This issue pertains to the following matters... blah blah blah Mr. Important ---------------------------------------------------------- Email to the cellphone: ---------------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: somebody.important - Urgent issue Andy, We need to discuss this issue with the management immediately. This issue pertains to the follow ---------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
