program that can append message to email

MasquedAvenger

Hey everyone. I just found out that altermime doesn't perform the key operations I wanted it to do when it is reading from stdin. That was very dissapointing. I need therefore a program that I can call from procmail that will allow me to append a message to the bottom of an email message. For example:

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That sort of thing. Anyone that knows of anything please let me know

James

adaptr · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 12:33 pm Post subject:

Well - an email is a simple text file, yes ?
With clearly-defined delimiters for attachements.
So you could write a one-line perl script[1] to look for the end of the text message and insert your own text there, then copy everything out to stdout again.
Procmail should do fine.

[1] Okay, so maybe it's 3 lines...
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MasquedAvenger · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 3:51 pm Post subject:

Very true. Although since I know absolutely nothing about perl, that would be really tough for me to do :-P

I guess maybe it's time for me to learn something new...

James

adaptr · Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 10:43 pm Post subject:

*Basic* perl isn't that difficult - really, rather like Pascal or something.
I could probably knock up a one-liner for everyday jobs myself.

Advanced (and therefore useful) perl is another matter...

Imagine an advanced programming language, like C++ - got it ?
Okay, now throw out any sort of type definition, your basic precedence rules and whatever internal logic you're used to, and take a hit or two of some really good acid.
THAT's perl ;-)

But I'm sure you can scrounge something like this from one of the many excellent scripting forums on the net.
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Essential tools: gentoolkit eix profuse screen