Re: Linux Sucketh not.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:06:39AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:30:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:17:31PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > > This is a reply to this email as received in digest mode. I use mutt
> > > to read my mail. In mutt, I open the digest email by pressing CR, and
> > > then open a pick-list of contents of the email using 'v'. Then each
> > > post to the list appears as a separate 'sub-email'. I use 'L' to reply
> > > to the list from within one of the sub-emails just as I would reply if
> > > the emails had arrived individually.
> >
> > I have to wonder if procmail can barf (that's the opposite of
> > digesting, right?) digests into an mbox.
>
> formail(1) certainly can do it.
See my thread "Exim permissions" from November last year, in which
Clive Standbridge quoted the recipe:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:00:00AM +0000, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> On Sat 30 Nov 2002 17:14:09 +0000(+0000), Pigeon wrote:
> >
> > I've been writing a C program to burst incoming digests into separate
> > messages.
>
> Did you know that procmail can regurgitate digested mail? From the
> procmailex man page:
>
> Split up incoming digests from the surfing mailing list
> into their individual messages, and store them into surf?
> ing, using surfing.lock as the locallockfile.
>
> :0:
> * ^Subject:.*surfing.*Digest
> | formail +1 -ds >>surfing
>
> That's if you use mbox mailboxes. For other formats you may need to replace
> the append to mailbox with a command (man formail).
>
> To invoke procmail from exim, put this line in ~/.forward:
> |/usr/bin/procmail
Pigeon
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