Accessing mail -d -s inside a script...

[bitterrob]

Im writing a script that needs to read a mail, save it then do some processing on the saved file then delete the mail according to the results of the processing....
I was wondering if it were possible to write a script file so that you could do mail -s filename....(which cant be run as -s is a subcommand..... thankks in advance for any help

 

[pcunix]

Not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but it sounds to me like it would be better done with procmail as the mail arrives. Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[MikeLacey]

Hi Rob,

Have you tried the "here document" way of doing things?

It's where you supply the keystrokes, that will control some program, within your script. Like this:

mail <<!
q
!

Everything down to the line containing just ! is fed to the program. In this case it simply quits. Mike
______________________________________________________________________
&quot;Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald.&quot;

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.

 

[bitterrob]

thanks mike for your help. Unfortuately it doesnt appear to work.
what I typed in was
mail <<!
s temp
q
!
but it only created an ! file.
can you assist?

 

[bitterrob]

this is my whole script....
mail << !
s nextmail
q
!
tmp=`grep -c unixassessment2002 nextmail`
while tmp <> 0 do
emailaddy= `grep Reply-To: nextmail |sed -e &quot;s/Reply-To: //&quot;`
name=`grep NameToAdd nextmail |sed -e &quot;s/NameToAdd: //&quot;`
session=`grep Session nextmail |sed -e &quot;s/Session: //&quot;`
count='grep -c session table'
if count < 4 then
paste emailaddy session name > table
mail emailaddy
dear name, you have been added to the list at session. thankyou
<ctrl-D>
fi
done

 

[bitterrob]

or corrected a bit
mail << ReadMail
s nextmail
q
ReadMail
tmp=`grep -c unixassessment2002 nextmail`
while tmp <> 0
do
emailaddy= `grep Reply-To: nextmail |sed -e &quot;s/Reply-To: //&quot;`
name=`grep NameToAdd nextmail |sed -e &quot;s/NameToAdd: //&quot;`
session=`grep Session nextmail |sed -e &quot;s/Session: //&quot;`
count='grep -c session table'
if count < 4
then
paste emailaddy session name > table
mail $emailaddy
dear $name, you have been added to the list at $session. thankyou
<ctrl-d>
fi
done