Re: How do I extract subject?

[Liviu Daia <Liviu.Daia@imar.ro>]

On 12 March 2000, Mrinal Kalakrishnan <mrinal@mrinal.dhs.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I receive certain files which are encoded using mmencode through
> email. In the email, the subject line gives the name of the file.  So
> I want to make a procmail recipe to automatically decode the file and
> save it in that filename. But I don't know how to extract the subject
> from the message and use it in the recipe itself.
>
> My recipe looks like this:
> 
> :0
> * (some conditions)
> | formail -I "" | mmencode -u > filename
> 
> This extracts the body, passes it through mmencode -u, and saves it in
> filename. Now I want filename to be taken from the subject of the same
> message. Is there any way to do this?

    If the subject is the name of the file and nothing else, try this:

	:0 bw
	* (conditions)
	* ^Subject:[ 	]+\/.*
	| mmencode -u >$MATCH

    Better yet, use uudeview [1], which can extract the name of the
file:

	:0 bw
	* (conditions)
	| uudeview -p /some/directory -i - >/dev/null 2>&1

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia

[1]: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~fp/uudeview/

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