Re: getaddr confusion

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:20:51 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.maildrop
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Neil Romig writes:

> I am using getaddr in .mailfilter to extract addresses:
>
> if( /^From:\s*(.*)/:h )
> {
>  FRM=getaddr($MATCH1)
> }
>
> I have added log "$FRM" to the .mailfilter file to investigate, and it
> fails to extract the address from lines like this:
>
> From: "Someone - Mailbox" <[email protected]>
>
> But it will work with:
>
> From: "Some One" <[email protected]>
>
> I guess the hyphen is causing trouble - is this a bug or am I failing
> to understand?

Works for me.

logfile "mail.log"
if( /^From:\s*(.*)/:h )
{
 FRM=getaddr($MATCH1)
}

log "$FRM"

Results in:


[email protected]

Date: Wed Apr 20 16:48:34 2016
From: "Someone - Mailbox" <[email protected]>
Subj: tst
File: ./Maildir/.                                                          
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