Re: MIME headers in Procmail

John Levine wrote:

> I could do something like this:
>
> :0 c
> | formail -xsubject |perl -Mencode -ne 'print encode("UTF8",decode("MIME-Header",$_))'>  /tmp/junk$$
>
> SUBJ=`cat /tmp/junk$$`
>
> but, uh, bletch.

Then wouldn't the foillowing do the job?  (Sorry, not sure how my mailer 
will wrap this, so I have to break the line in a way to get sane results.)

:0
SUBJ=| formail -xsubject |perl -Mencode -ne \
  'print encode("UTF8",decode("MIME-Header",$_))'

> and then do matches like
>
> * SUBJ ?? pattern

as you said?

At least you wouldn't have that nasty temp file.