Re: MIME headers in Procmail

On 2011-07-10 15:58, John Levine wrote:

John, you really need to keep the attribution, or you will get ignored 
yourself too.


>>> 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,
>
> Then I have to do two versions of everything else in the procmail
> file, one to match the plain subject (or whatever) line and one to
> match the flattened variable.

Tsk. Just "normalize" the full mail header in an early step. After that, 
all of your recipes only see the "normalized" version of the header.


> This doesn't do anything useful,

You are whining again. Stop that. And take a holiday of at least a few 
weeks.


> since you can't predict which order the headers will be in (it's
> whatever order they are in the incoming message), and the perl module
> won't pick up the MIME cruft unless it's the first thing on the first line:

Tsk again. And again (some people need it at least thrice): filter the 
full mail header using Perl, and work it out from there.

-- 
Ruud