Re: Finding a name inside of an email

From: David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com>
Date: Fri Feb 25 2005 - 11:43:35 AKST

* Arthur Corliss <acorliss@nevaeh-linux.org> [2005-02-25 21:33 +0100]:
> You're missing the fact that the solutions we've been discussing has nothing
> to do with my process for converting maildir to mbox. The original requester
> was *parsing* the files looking for a specific one. I'm globbing them all and
> doing nVo parsing. In a nutshell all I'm doing is:
>
> for file in new/* ; do
> formail -I Status: < "$file" >> ./mbox
> done
>
> [snips]
> filenames had colons. It was a "Gee, I should have known that!"/head-slapping
> acknowledgement, nothing more.

Yep, missed that. Don't know what I was thinking about, but I'm sure it
wasn't that. There's my head-slap (tit for tat, as it were ;). Your
method is how I do most of the merging I have to do... although that's
all personal stuff, as I don't do this for a living.

> > Yeah, that's always good. I'm learning that, slowly but surely. My
> > [snips]
> > this type of project.
>
> :-) Perl & the Template Toolkit is what I use for that.

You are an evil, evil man. Now I have to go look that up and play with
it... like I didn't have enough to do! ;] Thanks for the tip.

Regards,

-- 
dave [ please don't CC me ]
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