print out variable in procmail

Question

I have a procmail recipe to filter incoming mail such as below:

  :0
    *^Subject:.*(test)
    * ? egrep -is -f /root/Procmail/whitelist.txt

    {

    :0 fwb
    | formail -I ""


    :0
    myfolder/
    }

The above recipe function is to filter out the body content of the email and forward that mail to myfolder. The problem is i have a variable that i want to put inside the body.

FROM_=`formail -c -x"From " \
     | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g' \
     | awk '{ print $1 }'`

    SUBJ_=`formail -c -x"Subject:" \
     | expand \
     | sed -e 's/  */ /g' \
     | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`

This email body (together with the variable) should be forward to myfolder.

I've try to echo the variable like this but still no use.

:0 fwb
 echo "${SUBJ_}"
 echo "{FROM_}"

Is the something wrong with my recipe?Can someone help me?

Answer 1

You need to pipe into the shell script. An action without a prefix saves to a folder named "echo", in your case.

You were also lacking a dollar sign on the ${FROM_} variable.

:0 fwb
| ( echo "${SUBJ_}";  echo "${FROM_}" )

Your assignments could probably be optimized quite a bit. Piping sed to sed or awk is rarely necessary; if sed cannot handle what you want, then let awk do it all.

FROM_=`formail -c -x"From " \
 | expand \
 | awk '{ gsub (/^[ ]*|[ ]*$/,""); print $1 }'`

SUBJ_=`formail -c -x"Subject:" \
 | expand \
 | sed -e 's/  */ /g' -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'`

(Not sure why you would need expand in there either, but I left it in just in case.)