Re: embedding sed scripts in .procmailrc

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 06:22:14 +0100,
Oliver Fuchs wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, csj wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 06:24:11 +0100, Oliver Fuchs wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, csj wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Why doesn't the following .procmailrc recipe work?
> > > > 
> > > > :0fwh
> > > 
> > > it has to be
> > > 
> > > :0 fwh
> > > 
> > > > | sed -e 's/^List-Post:/X-Mailing-List-Post-Address:/I ; s/mailto://'
> > > 
> > > What exactly do you want to do here?
> > 
> > Easy. I want to rewrite the email header (field) List-Post so
> > that I can use it with my MUA's automatic "To:"
> > insertion. The header in question generally takes the
> > non-useful from of "List-Post: <mailto:foo@bar.org>"
> > 
> > Basically I want to extract the contents of List-Post minus
> > the "mail-to:" to create a header like
> > "X-Mailing-List-Post-Address: <foo@bar.org>." I can then tell
> > my MUA to use this in replies to list mail. This I feel is a
> > better solution than attempting to make an elephant dance.
> 
> Ah, o.k ... looking at the header of your mail I found this:
> 
> X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/247813
> 
> So it is already there ... is this what you wanted?  Using mutt
> you have the possibility:
> 
>   list-reply (default: L)

[snip n/a]

If you looked further ;-), you could have also noted that I'm not
using mutt. Sorry, a recent convert to the church of
emacs. Besides, the mailing list isn't debian. The most common
mailing list identifier I've found is "List-Post", which to
recapitulate contains an added "mailto:";

> See also man formail:
> 
>        To supersede the Reply-To: field in a header you could
> use:
> 	      formail -i "Reply-To: foo@bar"

I've checked that one out. It seems you still need some sed
tricks.