Re: Sending a new email with maildrop/mailbot

On Dec 5, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Larry Stone writes:
> 
>> 
>> So far, for the Maildrop equivalent, I've come up with using mailbot
>> (from reading the man page, it appears reformail is not the tool for
>> this) is:
>> if (/^From:.*REDACTED/ && \
>>     /^Subject:.*key subject/ && \
>>     /.*key text/:b && \
>> {
>>     `grep -i "key text" > .tmpmailfilter`
>>     cc "|/usr/local/bin/mailbot -t .tmpmailfilter \
>>       -A 'From: [email protected]' \
>>       -N -s "Key" /usr/sbin/sendmail -f '' [email protected]"
>>     `rm .tmpmailfilter`
>> }
>> 
>> This works so my only concern is that it is not optimal. Is there a way to
>> avoid using the temporary file by using a variable like in the procmail
>> recipe? Also, I tried setting the destination with [email protected]
>> but if IIRC, correctly, that caused it to go to the original sender as
>> well.
> 
> Something like this:
> 
> if (/^From:.*REDACTED/ && \
>  /^Subject:.*key subject/ && /.*key text.*/:b)
> {
>     cc "| (echo 'From: [email protected]'; echo 'Subject: key'; sed -n '/^From:/d;/^Subject:/d;1,/^$/p';"' echo "$MATCH") | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f "" [email protected]'
> }


Hmmm. Never even thought about building a message on the fly and just piping it to sendmail. But sure, that would work. But is something missing there? I know little about sed (always found other ways to do things) but where is $MATCH getting defined?

-- 
Larry Stone
[email protected]
http://www.stonejongleux.com/

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