Re: save only mail body into a file

Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Nov 2017 16:40:30 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Message-ID <20171111054029.GC3357@ratatosk>
On 10.11.17 08:52, Zhiliang Hu wrote:
> For one of my specific purposes I used to pass certain mails to a perl
> script in order to save/process ONLY the mail body.
> =

> It can simplify the process if I can directly drop a mail body into a fil=
e.
> I tried ':0 b' to save mailbody, =


That works for me:

	:0b:
	* ^Subject: *furdlesnurk
	/tmp/snurdlefurk

erik@ratatosk:~$ mail erik
Subject: furdlesnurk
Only the body should be saved to file.
Cc: =


erik@ratatosk:~$ cat /tmp/snurdlefurk =

Only the body should be saved to file.

> 'formail -I' to remove mail headers,
> without success. I also fail to find useful hints by onine searches. Any
> advice/hint? :)

More coffee. That sometimes helps. ;-)

Erik