Re: Decode a mail with MIME::Parser

Hi again, Thanks for the answer but I cannot seem to get your part with the mbox to work.
I'm using the .procmailrc with the following statement:

:0 | /tmp/mailparser.pl> /tmp/test.log

So I'm parsing the mail directly to the script which should read it through STDIN.
I changed the print (to,from,subject,body) to print to a file instead because that is what I need, but the file is empty. The script now looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::MboxParser;

my $mbox= \*STDIN;
my $mb = Mail::MboxParser->new($mbox);

open (MSG,">mailmessage");

for my $msg ($mb->get_messages) {
   my $to = $msg->header->{to};
   my $from = $msg->header->{from};
   my $cc = $msg->header->{cc} || " ",
   my $subject = $msg->header->{subject} || '<No Subject:>',
   my $body = $msg->body($msg->find_body,0);
   my $body_str = $body->as_string || '<No message text>';
   print MSG "To: $to\n",
         "From: $from\n",
         "Cc: $cc\n",
         "Subject: $subject\n",
         "Message Text: $body_str\n";
   print MSG "~" x 77, "\n\n";
close MSG;
}
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The file is created so it's not a permission problem but it is empty. The MboxParser.pm is just installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Rune

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Using MIME::Lite to resend plain text messages (no attachments) by jlongino (Parson) on Sep 03, 2002 at 14:45 UTC
I'd move `close MSG;` [download] outside of the for loop just for aesthetic purposes and check for errors on your open statement: `open (MSG, ">>mailmessage") or die "File open failed: $!\n";` [download] but otherwise it performs as I would expect. Try saving a copy of your mail message to a file and invoke the program like so: `/tmp/mailparser.pl < mail.message.file` [download] This suggests that you'll probably have to modify your procmail config line in some way, but I'm not familiar with procmail. Update: I've had a similar problem using the /etc/aliases file to strip/redirect mail to a special account. I solved my problem by parsing the message and then resending it to a different account. This is sort of ugly, but it works until I can figure out the correct method: `#/etc/aliases entry ## The below entry saves an unaltered copy on account original, and ## pipes the incoming message through our program which ## resends to the final destination account. Be sure to execute ## 'newaliases' after you modify the /etc/aliases for the changed ## entry to be updated. original: \original, "\|/tmp/mailparser.pl"` [download] The modified perl program: `## # MboxParser stuff here ## use MIME::Lite; my $msg = new MIME::Lite To => 'targetaccount@same.site.net', From => $from, Cc => $cc, Subject => $subject, Type => 'TEXT', Comments => $to, ## save original to: if needed Data => $body_str; MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "some.smtp.net", Timeout=>60); $msg->send;` [download] --Jim	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Decode a mail with MIME::Parser by Anonymous Monk on Jan 04, 2004 at 08:46 UTC
I faced the same problem with pipeline from .procmailrc \*STDIN; seem to be not work..	[reply]


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