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Creating a mail forwarding script
Hello. I need some help creating a script which will grab my e-mail headers and forward it to another e-mail address(to my cell phone).
I know my unix server has procmail to process mail stuff but I don't really have the time (or the know-how) to figure it out. If someone could write the script for me, I would be grateful (and will award points). If you need any information about the unix server, just ask..... Thanks.
I know my unix server has procmail to process mail stuff but I don't really have the time (or the know-how) to figure it out. If someone could write the script for me, I would be grateful (and will award points). If you need any information about the unix server, just ask..... Thanks.
ASKER
I want it to only forward the headers.
I need it to parse the e-mail because my cell phone will only take 160 characters.
Also, I need it to save a copy on the server too.
I need it to parse the e-mail because my cell phone will only take 160 characters.
Also, I need it to save a copy on the server too.
Most cell phone email systems will only
forward first 160 characters including senders name
subject and first few characters of the message.
Even if you forward the full email, your cell phone
email system will truncate the message for you.
I just use .forward to forward the message.
..forward:
\localusername, phonenumner@cellphone-addr
forward first 160 characters including senders name
subject and first few characters of the message.
Even if you forward the full email, your cell phone
email system will truncate the message for you.
I just use .forward to forward the message.
..forward:
\localusername, phonenumner@cellphone-addr
ASKER
well, if the message is over 160, it truncates it to 5 messages. I don't want 5 messages coming in when I get an e-mail.
All I want is to know how to make the e-mail go thru a script so I can parse it to only send the subject and the from fields. (and possibly block spam...)
All I want is to know how to make the e-mail go thru a script so I can parse it to only send the subject and the from fields. (and possibly block spam...)
ok.. in that case.. someone has to write a procmai
script... Lemme see if I can get you one,
script... Lemme see if I can get you one,
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Thanks. Works well!
One last question:
what is the phone.cache thing?
One last question:
what is the phone.cache thing?
phone.cache is just a database of message IDs. The 'formail -D 8192 phone.cache' line causes it to remember recent last message IDs (up to a cache size 8192). It returns "success" if a duplicate is found. (The next stanza uses 'e', so it will happen only if the previous result was false... meaning no duplicate was found.)
If you aren't worried about duplicates, you could take out that bit:
:0 hc
# don't forward daemon/error messages or mailing lists
* !^FROM_DAEMON
! me@phoneisp.com
If you aren't worried about duplicates, you could take out that bit:
:0 hc
# don't forward daemon/error messages or mailing lists
* !^FROM_DAEMON
! me@phoneisp.com
The .forward file should just contain the email address of the person you need the mail to go to.
e.g.
Fred.Bloggs@somewhere.com
Give it a go, can't hurt!
J :)