Mail archiving scripts?
Following on from recent topics, can anyone point me at any scripts to help with breaking up mailbox files? I did have one, but that used the From field which unfortunately get's munged if you use Formail/Procmail to reprosses a mailbox. Ideally I'm looking for something that uses the Date: field and would take as input a month and year, e.g.: March 2001, a mailbox, e.g.: london-pm and create a new file of the mails matching those criteria, suitably named, say london-pm.2001.03. Pointers to something suitable are fine but please bear in mind my perl is rudimentary... okay it's non-existent :-) Neil.
Re: Mail archiving scripts?
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Neil Ford wrote:
Following on from recent topics, can anyone point me at any scripts to help
with breaking up mailbox files?
Mr Barr's mailtools have all the gubbins required - available from your
local CPAN :)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Mail::Util qw(read_mbox);
use Mail::Internet;
use Mail::Header;
my $mess_list = read_mbox('/var/spool/mail/gellyfish') || die "Aieee\n";
foreach my $message (@{$mess_list} )
{
my $mail = Mail::Internet-new($message);
my $head = $mail-head; # A Mail::Header;
print "Mail from : ",$head-get('From'),
" Subject : ", $head-get('Subject'),"\n";
foreach my $body_line (@{$mail-body})
{
print $body_line;
}
}
For instance ...
/J\
Re: Mail archiving scripts?
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:50:34PM +0100, Neil Ford wrote:
Following on from recent topics, can anyone point me at any scripts to help
with breaking up mailbox files?
This is what I do:
Use Mail::Audit in a loop over the mailbox, doing something like this:
my ($y, $m) = (localtime)[5,4];
my $date = sprintf("%04d%02d", $y+1900, $m+1);
my %lists = (
regexp = "listname",
...
);
for my $what (keys %lists) {
my $where = $lists{$what};
if ($from =~ /$what/i or $to =~ /$what/i or $cc =~/$what/i) {
$item-accept($folder.$where."-$date");
return;
}
}
This means your mail gets filed to boxes like "london.pm-200104".
If you're using Mail::Audit for your incoming mail, this solution will
mean that new mail automatically gets filed to month-stamped mailboxes
as it comes in. When mutt scans your mailbox directory for new mail, it'll
pick up the new mailbox at the beginning of the month. Neat, eh? :)
--
} /* the next line is indented funny to preserve old indentation */
- plan9 has a bad day
Re: archiving
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:36:54PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Did you all know that i used to blow up pressurised butane cannisters as a child? We *all* used to do *that* :-) .robin. -- A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama! --Guy Jacobson
Re: archiving
* Andrew Bowman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Did you all know that i used to blow up pressurised butane cannisters as a child? I guess that goes with the accent Greg ;-) If you hadn't discovered Perl goodness knows what you'd be doing now... Blowing up members of the conservative party no doubt Curse you Perl! ;-) [ I don't want to hear any crap about this one liner from anyone, if you try to flame me about it i'm going to stick my hands over my ears and say `La la la, I can't hear you, La la la', Ok? ] Andrew. P.S. Did you do the old WD40 flamethrower trick too? childs play, however beyond pressurised flammable substances, i remember a particular stroke of genius from a northern irish camp site, where they had a diesel tank near the camp site, sure it was in the forest, but 20 yards beyond the tree line is not going to stop a pile of young northern irish arsenists. ah great and dangerous days, Greg -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
Re: archiving
* at 03/04 13:55 +0100 Greg McCarroll said: * Robin Houston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:36:54PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote: Did you all know that i used to blow up pressurised butane cannisters as a child? We *all* used to do *that* :-) snip content="tales of madness and danger from the dark mccarroll past"/ So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive? aren't they no fun in that all they do is sent a cease and desist letter rather than get involved in pointless debates? plus do we really want people coming round a seizing our computers as evidence? (well, not unless it's covered by household insurance as mine's looking a bit elderly these days) struan
RE: archiving
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2001 13:56 So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive? Where do I start? * L Ron Hubbard is on record as saying the best way to make money is to start a religion. A few years later he founded the church of scientology. * Scientologists believe that humans are descended from clams. * Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were both scientologists. There's a rumour that their (exactly) ten year marriage was a scientology contract drawn up to cover up the fact that they're both gay. * Scientologists pay huge sums of money to buy "secrets" that are mirrored all over the internet. The "church" claims these are copyrighted and will do their best to close down any site carrying these. * The "church" was responsible for the closure of anon.penet.fi and recently forced Slashdot to edit some comments. * Loads more good stuff from Operation Clambake at http://www.xenu.net. Is that the sort of thing you wanted? Dave... -- The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please re-send this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system.
Re: archiving
* at 03/04 14:17 +0100 dcross - David Cross said: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2001 13:56 So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive? Where do I start? * L Ron Hubbard is on record as saying the best way to make money is to start a religion. A few years later he founded the church of scientology. * Scientologists believe that humans are descended from clams. * Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were both scientologists. There's a rumour that their (exactly) ten year marriage was a scientology contract drawn up to cover up the fact that they're both gay. * Scientologists pay huge sums of money to buy "secrets" that are mirrored all over the internet. The "church" claims these are copyrighted and will do their best to close down any site carrying these. * The "church" was responsible for the closure of anon.penet.fi and recently forced Slashdot to edit some comments. * Loads more good stuff from Operation Clambake at http://www.xenu.net. Is that the sort of thing you wanted? you'll have those illumnati round your house this evening.. or is that david ike? struan and you forgot the machines for exorcising the space aliens from your head. or something like that.
More Scientology stuff, ignore if you are not interested was Re: archiving
* dcross - David Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2001 13:56 So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive? Where do I start? * L Ron Hubbard is on record as saying the best way to make money is to start a religion. A few years later he founded the church of scientology. as in CoS "People should be free to believe whatever they want, including Scientology. What I have against CoS is its deceitfulness, its lack of compassion for its members (especially the hard-working staff), its aggressive hard sell, its arrogance, its attack on free speech, its litigiousness, its harassment of its critics, its lack of concern for families, its gross neglect and abuse of children, etc. " from http://www.xenu.net/cb-faq.html you can also help out at http://www.xenu.net/support.html Is that the sort of thing you wanted? exactly dave, it makes me feel that the archive have some use! -- Greg McCarroll http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net
RE: archiving
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote: * Scientologists pay huge sums of money to buy "secrets" that are mirrored all over the internet. The "church" claims these are copyrighted and will do their best to close down any site carrying these. -- The information contained in this communication is ^^ confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are ^^^ hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or ^^^ copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Is it just me that finds your disclaimer really quite funny in context? :) Hey!!! That took the legal team at Acxiom (US) months to come upt with :) Andy (Acxiom Employee :()
Re: Legal Disclaimers on Email (was: Re: archiving)
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:56:27AM -0400, Andy Williams wrote: [snip] Hey!!! That took the legal team at Acxiom (US) months to come upt with :) And what do they know about UK law? Sweet FA I guess. I have pointed this out to our "management team", but I'm just a lowly perl hacker, what would I know. Andy
Re: archiving
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 02:17:01PM +0100, dcross - David Cross wrote: So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive? Where do I start? Posting the fishman affidavit should do it. ;) * The "church" was responsible for the closure of anon.penet.fi and recently forced Slashdot to edit some comments. Forced is a bit strong. They used the (Broken) DMCA law and told Slashdot what to do. Slashdot realized that this wasn't every-ones favourite bad guy Microsoft and realized that they had not a leg to stand on. The reason i have such a jaded view of this is that the situation was very similar to the Microsoft Kerberus one and Slashdot held their ground over that one. Also it was amusing to see the comments praising the decision to back down and remove the article. Dean -- Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon
Re: archiving
Did you all know that i used to blow up pressurised butane cannisters as a child? No, but I'm hardly surprised... -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "i don't play lead. it interferes with my drinking." - Malcolm Young
True Scientology Story (was Re: More Scientology stuff, ignore ifyou are not interested was Re: archiving)
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote: * dcross - David Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 April 2001 13:56 So, should we start baiting Scientologists through the archive? Where do I start? * L Ron Hubbard is on record as saying the best way to make money is to start a religion. A few years later he founded the church of scientology. as in CoS "People should be free to believe whatever they want, including Scientology. What I have against CoS is its deceitfulness, its lack of compassion for its members (especially the hard-working staff), its aggressive hard sell, its arrogance, its attack on free speech, its litigiousness, its harassment of its critics, its lack of concern for families, its gross neglect and abuse of children, etc. " from http://www.xenu.net/cb-faq.html you can also help out at http://www.xenu.net/support.html Is that the sort of thing you wanted? exactly dave, it makes me feel that the archive have some use! I have one Scientology story - A couple of years ago I was in East Grinstead hospital (thing 'Guinea Pig Club') while they were trying to fix the little finger on my right hand ( they failed but thats another story ). There was this nice Maori guy in the bed next to me out of his head on pain-killers as he had third degree burns on his arms. Anyhow it transpired that he was part of a Maori dancing troupe that was doing some cultural tour at the behest of the Church of Scientology whose european headquarters happen to be in East Grinstead. The second day I was in the hospital I was beginning to get a little pissed off as you do and this party of bloody Scientology Auditors came along and started doing their thing with this geezer with only the merest of hospital screens around - I dont think that they get out the old baked bean can and avometer device ( Oooh sorry E-Meter ) but you can never be too sure - and this started going on for seeming hours and I was that bored that I had started reading Bjarne Stroustrup' book again. I'm not going to bore you with the details of wahat the prats were going o about but needless to say it could be deduced from Hubbards earlier writings and the basic milieu of cod spychology of the early sixties ... I complained to the staff and they said it pissed them off too but they got a lot of them in being the HQ and everything and they couldnt do much about it /J\
