On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:55:43AM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:37:01AM +0100, Jens Benecke wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to create a script that greps for a specific mail header coming from > > STDIN. "mailgrep" and "mboxgrep" don't work, they need files to work on, > > but the mail comes via STDIN. > > > > So I need to write something like > > > > | condredirect [EMAIL PROTECTED] egrep "^X-Spam-Flag: YES" > > > > BUT where grep would "exit 1;" and not search any further when it encounters > > the first empty line (the end of the mail headers) > > > > > > Backgroud: I want to filter SPAM but I don't want to filter attached SPAM > > that people forward to me to analyze. So I can't just grep for > > "X-Spam-Flag:". > > A grepish program that doesn't work on stdin sounds odd. Have you tried > using '-' as the filename? From grepmail(1) on woody: > > If no mailbox is specified, takes input from stdin, > which can be compressed or not. grepmail's behavior is > undefined when ASCII and binary data is piped together > as input. > > Otherwise, if mailgrep et al otherwise work, you might consider fixing them > (i.e., hack the source) to support input on stdin.
Support for reading on stdin was added to mboxgrep at v0.7.7, see http://sf.net/projects/mboxgrep/. Woody's mboxgrep is at v0.7.6.something. Ken -- Ken Irving, Research Analyst, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 907-474-6152 Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering University of Alaska, Fairbanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]