sed question (I think)

[BIS]

Hallo All,

I have this little script that strips out the From address and inserts it as return path. I use qmail, with mess822 and seek0 (because I have been told to, not because I am a guru on these...)

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#!/bin/sh
QMAILINJECT="s"; export QMAILINJECT
sender="$(cat - | 822field From | sed 's/^ *//g')"
seek0 0
exec /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f "$sender" "$DEFAULT

###

in my logs I get stuff like this:

<"\"TestUser\"_<testuser"@mydomain.com>..._Unbalanced_'>'/

My question to you people is, can anybody see anything wrong in the sed part? I am very very new to sed...

 

[stefanwagner]

What does

cat - | 822field From

produce?
What do you expect as result?

testuser@mydomain.com

I guess something like

sed 's/.*\([a-zA-Z0-9_\.]*@[a-zA-Z0-9_\.]*\)/\1/g'
should work, assuming '_' may be part of an email, while '-' is illegal - not sure about that.

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[BIS]

Why didn't I think of that...

cat - | 822field From

did not produce the expected result.....