On 11-Feb-2003/19:27 -0800, Christopher Lyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This might be a dumb question but since I am mostly using X windows and >evolution I don't know what to use in the text environment. If I needed >to pull email from a POP server and parse over the subjects with a >filter what would the best POP client be to perform that operation?
Download with fetchmail and filter with procmail. You can have fetchmail deliver directly to procmail. My ~/.fetchmailrc looks something like this: defaults protocol pop3 fetchall nokeep mda "procmail -d $LOGNAME" poll pop.myisp.com username myname password mypass A procmail filter to feed the subject lines to a script might look like this: :0hc * ^Subject: | formail -c -x Subject: | /usr/local/bin/myscript The first line denotes the start of the filter. The 'h' tells procmail to deliver the header to the file or pipe. The 'c' tells procmail to operate on a copy of the message. The original will still be delivered according to subsequent filters. The second line is a regexp for the subject line. This will match every message that has a subject header. The last line pipes the message header through formail, where the subject will be extracted and piped into your script. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Messenger: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
