[wellylug] Awk / mail processing

[Volker Kuhlmann]

> I was wondering if someone here could indicate me how I could process a bunch 
> of mail (got by fetchmail) to remove headers and attachements, keeping just 
> the "from", "subject" "date" and text and save it into one txt file / mail
> 
> I thought that (g)awk could be the solution, but any advice on this matter 
> would be nice, since I know very little about (g)awk.  

gawk would be able to do the job. You need to restrict your filtering
to the email headers really. procmail is always a very good choice.
formail can remove any header(s) you specify, and you can run it as a
filter without procmail, but I don't think it has an option of "keep
these headers and throw the rest".

In procmail, you could simply do this:

:0 fhw
| egrep -vi '^(from |from:|subject:|date:)'

This filters, afterwards you do something with the mail (e.g. save).
You could put this into a separate file and call procmail with it, to
keep it separate from the rest of your procmail filtering.

Volker

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