Re: MIME headers in Procmail

On 2011-07-10 01:58, John Levine wrote:
 > attribution dammit! wrote:

>> 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?
>
> You're right, that works. (Nobody ever said the procmail documentation
> was any good.)  But it still fires up a shell, formail, and a copy of
> perl, rather a lot of work, and you'd have to do it separately for
> each header line you'd want to match.

Too obvious: only call it if the message header contains non-ASCII, and 
make it do the full header in one call.

-- 
Ruud