On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 17:54 -0500, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > I am having trouble using grep to grab subject lines from my spam > folder on eskimo. Some of the subject lines are unintelligible > because > they are utf8xxxxxxx and are probably part of a larger html message. > Is there a slick way to get the subject line without reading the > whole > entire message in an html browser? > > Attached are two scripts. The spam_dump.bash script is supposed to > dump the spam folder and be used once a week. I wonder if the gurus > here can take a look and see if I can do this better? The > spam_check.bash script is supposed to grep the subject lines o, so I came > up with an idea of fetching just a subject list of messages in a spam > folder and automating the dumping of that spam folder. > > -- Michael C. Robinson [michael@eagle ~]$ cat spam_check.bash #!/bin/bash
cd ~/mail cat spam|grep 'Subject: ' > spam_subjects mail -s "Spam subject list" ad...@robinson-west.com < spam_subjects rm -f spam_subjects [michael@eagle ~]$ [michael@eagle ~]$ cat spam_dump.bash #!/bin/bash # # Launch from crontab once a week at midnight. # # Snapshot current spam folder. # Dump spam folder by copying over it empty spam mbox. cd ~ # Figure out how many backups there are. count=`cat archive_spam/count` # Dump the backups after four back ups. if [ "$count" -gt "4" ] then # Store a list of what is in archive_spam directory for emailing... ls -l archive_spam > file_list # Email to admin what is being dumped, file list in body... mail -s "Dump last four weeks of spam" ad...@robinson-west.com < file_list if [ ! -d ~/archive_spam/hold ] then mkdir ~/archive_spam/hold fi # Get a listing of the spam subjects... ./spam_check.bash # Move the backups into hold... mv -vf archive_spam/spam_mbox.* archive_spam/hold/ # Dump the 4 weeks of backups of spam mboxes... rm -vf archive_spam/spam_mbox.* # Set count back to 1... let count=1 fi diff mail/spam archive_spam/spam_template_mbox spam_empty=$? # Save this spam mbox unless it is empty... if [ ! $spam_empty ] then # Backup the current spam folder... cp mail/spam archive_spam/spam_mbox.$count # Copy over spam folder empty spam folder... cp -f archive_spam/spam_template_mbox mail/spam # Increment the backups counter... let count="$count + 1" else mail -s "The spam folder was empty at dump time!" ad...@robinson-west.com <<EOF The empty spam folder matches the current spam folder... EOF fi # Store the backup count for the next run... echo $count > archive_spam/count _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug