Re: Basic scripting

If you could set up a procmail recipee, it could move mail to a
specified folder based on regex patterns.

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ian/procmail.html

-Ross

It would seem chris h, on Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 07:42:44PM -0500, wrote:
> Greets:
> 
> Been a long time since I posted in this forum but have a simple issue. What I 
> would like to do is write a simple script that parses filtered emails in 
> kmail and print out specific content of that mail to my .gpsdrive/way.txt 
> file
> 
> Background:
> 
> Have a buddy sailing down the east coast and he use spot
> 
> http://www.findmespot.com/en/
> 
> to broadcast his position daily. These are all filtered by author via kmail. 
> I'm interested only in the lat and lon coordinates and to feed them to 
> gpsdrive/way.txt file in standardized format. 
> 
> Standard email contents
> ------------------------------------------
> ESN:0-7361228A <------- this is the user code
> Latitude:40.1058  <--- need only the data
> Longitude:-74.0526 < -- same as above
> 
> way.txt format
> ---------------------------------
> svAdena                 40.097750  -74.064962 waypoint 0 0 0 0
> (name of waypoint) 	(lat)		(lon)		(coord description) 
> 
> All email that needs to be parses is already located in a filtered kmail 
> folder. 
> 
> Any insight on how to do this would be appreciated as I'm clueless when it 
> comes to writing scripts.
> 
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