Re: How to replace a string in email body

On 2011-03-03 21:06, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
> At 10:03 2011-03-03, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:

>>> Procmail itself doesn't do text replacement.
>>
>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~rvtol/procmail/snr_demo.rc
>
> Ok, I'll go with "those of us who have retained some grasp on our sanity
> cannot accomplish text replacement within procmail without invoking
> another process."

Yeah. I once created that in an environment that didn't allow any shell 
operations. It allowed sed, but part of the fun was to go to the 
extreme. I still like how the procmail-mktime turned out.


> If I were using a host on which I couldn't simply use sed, I'd look for
> another host.
>
> I still maintain that you'll run into issues with message encoding.

There are examples on how to do that as well, but it is indeed very 
tricky, so it will be hard to really save cpu-cycles there.

-- 
Ruud