Re: Sending a new email with maildrop/mailbot

On Dec 5, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Larry Stone writes:
> 
>> On Dec 5, 2013, at 6:49 PM, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > 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?
> 
> The maildropfilter man page – it describes how $MATCH gets set; also mentions that when running an external command, maildrop's variables get exported as environment variables.

Stared at that man page and never saw it. :-(

Anyway, not quite what I needed but it put me on the right track. I don’t just need the match text in $MATCH, I need the whole line it was in. The “key text” string is the key to the correct line in the file.

What I ended up with is:
{
    MSGTEXT = `grep -i “key text"`
    cc "| (echo "From: $SENDER"; echo "To: $PHONE"; \
       echo "Subject: $SUBJECT"; echo ""; echo $MSGTEXT) | \
       /usr/sbin/sendmail $PHONE”
}

No temporary file and it doesn’t use mailbot which wasn’t quite generating the mail I wanted (although it worked for my purposes).

So all in all, thanks for the quick help.

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

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