Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] Email forwarding

[William S. <bs...@tw...>]

On Thursday 26 October 2000 22:35, you wrote:
> yes, you could definetly do this to procmail.. but, if you are able to
> somehow in .forward dump it to a file, you could easily grab the
> information you neeed using a combination of grep, egrep, and awk, and
> make it cute with sed :) I'll have to poke into it... ooh ooh! project! :)
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> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, William Shotts wrote:
> > On Thursday 26 October 2000 21:03, Thomas Bauer wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I just wondered how this is done:
> > >
> > > When I get an email (on my own server, sendmail) I want to forward
> > > specific lines from this email to another email address (say e.g. the
> > > From-line and the first line of the body). How is this done? I know
> > > there is a file .forward where you can forward the whole message ..
> > > Maybe someone knows ..
> > >
> > > Tom
> >
> > I would guess that you would need to use something like procmail to do
> > that. I have no experience with it but it supports automatic filtering
> > and such.
> >
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Yes, this would make a good project.  I'm waiting :-)

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