procmail?

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:18:06 +1200
Shane wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Have been a wee bit quiet recently as my new contract fires me all over 
> the country most weeks. However I have a linux question.
> 
> If given a text file which is a forward of an email, headers and all, is 
> there a program which will parse it and successfully extract the 
> senders, reply to, from, subject ... in the same manner that the mail 
> programmes must parse the received packets to find the data required in 
> the headers for them to make sense of the email and route it?
> 
> The problem I am facing is that looking at forwarded emails I need to 
> parse the forwarded text headers and find who it was from and also if 
> their reply to is different to the sent from. There are a number of 
> conventions for how reply to, sendto, from tags are displayed and 
> formatted. I could write my own parser but if  the code which does it 
> for mail programmes or another programme already does it why rebuild the 
> wheel.
> 
> I already have a parser written which takes text files and turns them 
> into nodes much the same way an XML validator steps through nodes but it 
> is the recognition of the headers I don't want to have to re-write.
> 
> Failing that do you now where the definitive list of valid header 
> formats resides?
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Shane
> 
> 
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