Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:04:29 -0800 From: Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re-sending selected e-mail messages Message-ID: <CAFuo_fyn4%2BxhSgwYTF%2B5-78JR1hYzP-aSUY%2BXwvRu32AE9=beQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130214004913.a89dc042.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20130214004913.a89dc042.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Feb 13, 2013 3:49 PM, "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages > according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or > suggestions for an already existing solution before I start > reinventing the wheel. :-) > > The messages in question are stored in MH format. This is a > tree where a mailbox equals a directory, and the individual > files in that directory equal the messages. They are numbered > 1, 2, 3, 4, ..., and so on. Each message is in > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > or > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > or maybe even > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > text format. Some of them might contain an attachment, which > is "included" in the file with something like > > --Multipart=... > Content-Type: ...; > name="..." > Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="..." > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > --Multipart=...--- > > Some messages are "fully multipart". > > So when iterating on ~/Mail/sent/1,2,3,4,5,... I get all the > messages. Each third line, "To:", is the criteria to look at. > If it matches a given recipient, the mail should be sent again. > This can easily be done by the system's mailer which is properly > configured (and uses ISP's MX), so | mail -s "maybe new subject" > is possible. The message should already be properly pre-composed. > > What is the easiest way to do this without reinventing the wheel, > or should I? :-) > > > > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I'm working on an email related project, you might hack it to work for you. https://github.com/waitman/elmboxo check out pmess.c it can do a single message. (the easy way to feed pmess a single message is actually to feed the single message to elmboxo as it is coded) anyway its built to stuff them in a mongodb db, but I.m working on a free nosql solution that works for my project. you can just chuck all those bits. an idea. Waitman Gobble San Jose California
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