I'd like to create a procmail recipe or Perl or shell script that will send an auto response to the original sender as well as anybody that was copied (either To: or cc:) on the original email.
Example:
bob#example.com writes an email to john#example.com and paul#example.com (in the To: field). Copies are sent via cc: to rob#example.com and alice#example.com.
I'd like the script to send an auto response to the original sender (bob#example.com) and everybody else that was sent a copy of the email (john#example.com, paul#example.com, rob#example.com and alice#example.com).
Thanks
You should be able to accomplish this using the this procmail module for Perl 5. You could also just use the procmail configuration files to do this as well.
Here's an example of our procmail configuration sending e-mails "through" a perl script.
:0fw
* < 500000
| /etc/smrsh/decode_subject.pl
I hope that helps get ya started.
FROM=`formail -rtzxTo:`
CC=`formail -zxTo: -zxCc: | tr '\n' ,`
:0c
| ( echo To: "$FROM"; echo Cc: "$CC"; echo Subject: auto-reply; \
echo; echo Please ignore. ) \
| $SENDMAIL -oi -t
A well-formed auto-reply should set some additional headers etc; but this should hopefully be enough to get you started. See also http://porkmail.org/era/mail/autoresponder-faq.html
Depending on you flavor of tr you might need to encode the newline differently; not all implementations of tr understand the '\n' format. Try with '\012' or a literal newline in single quotes if you cannot get this to work.
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I am trying to use the 3rd answer on How can I send an email through the UNIX mailx command? to send an email.
echo "body" | mutt -s "subject" example#example.com -y
However when I do so, I don't get any email sent to me.
Similarly I also tried mailx which was suggested in another answer to the same question:
mailx -s "subjec_of_mail" example#example.com < file_name
This also didn't work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
I am new to bash and having problem understanding how to get this done.
Check all "To:" field email address domains and list all unique domains to a variable to compare it to from domain.
I get the "from address" domain by using
grep -m 1 "From: " filename | cut -f 2 -d '#' | cut -d ">" -f 1
when reading a mail stored in file filename.
For "to address" domain there can be multiple To: addresses and having multiple domains. I am not sure how to get unique domains from "to address field".
Example to address line will be like this:
To: user#domain.com, user2#domain.com,
User Name <sample#domaintest.com>, test#domainname.com
grep -m 1 "^To: " filename | cut -f 2 -d '#' | cut -d ">" -f 1
but there are different format of email. So I am not sure if grep is right or if I should search for awk or something.
I need to get the unique domain list from the "To:" field email address/addresses to a variable in bash script.
Desired output for above example:
domain.com,domaintest.com,domainname.com
If you are hellbent on doing this with line-oriented utilities, there is a utility formail in the Procmail distribution which can normalize things for you somewhat.
bash$ formail -czxTo: <<\==test==
> From: me <sender#example.com>
> To: you <first#example.org>,
> them <other#example.net>
> Subject: quick demo
>
> Very quick, innit.
> ==test==
first#example.org, other#example.net
So with that you have input which you can actually pass to grep or Awk ... or sed.
fromdom=$(formail -czxTo: <message | tr ',' '\n' | sed 's/.*#//')
The From: address will not be normalized by formail -czxFrom: but you can use a neat trick: make formail generate a reply back to the From: address, and then extract the To: header from that.
todoms=$(formail -rtzcxTo: <message | sed 's/.*#//')
In some more detail, -r says to create a new reply to whoever sent you message, and then we do -zcxTo: on that.
(The -t option may or may not do what you want. In this case, I would perhaps omit it. http://www.iki.fi/era/procmail/formail.html has (vague) documentation for what it does; see also the section just before http://www.iki.fi/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#group-writable and sorry for the clumsy link -- there doesn't seem to be a good page-internal anchor to link to.)
Email address normalization is tricky because there are so many variants to choose from.
From: Elvis Parsley <king#graceland.example.com>
From: king#graceland.example.com
From: "Parsley, Elvis" <king#graceland.example.com> (kill me, I have to use Outlook)
From: "quoted#string" <king#graceland.example.com> (wait, he is already dead)
To: This could fold <recipient#example.net>,
over multiple lines <another#example.org>
I would turn to a more capable language with proper support for parsing all of these formats. My choice would be Python, though you could probably also pull this off in a few lines of Ruby or Perl.
The email library was revamped in Python 3.6 so this assumes you have at least that version. The email.Headerregistry class which is new in 3.6 is particularly convenient here.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from email.policy import default
from email import message_from_binary_file
import sys
if len(sys.argv) == 1:
sys.argv.append('-')
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if arg == '-':
handle = sys.stdin
else:
handle = open(arg, 'rb')
message = message_from_binary_file(handle, policy=default)
from_dom = message.get('From').address.domain
to_doms = set()
for addr in message.get('To').addresses:
dom = addr.domain
if dom == from_dom:
continue
to_doms.add(dom)
print(','.join([from_dom] + list(to_doms)))
if arg != '-':
handle.close()
This simply produces a comma-separated list of domain names; you might want to do the rest of the processing in Python too instead, or change this so that it prints something in a slightly different format.
You'd save this in a convenient place (say, /usr/local/bin/fromto) and mark it as executable (chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/fromto). Now you can call this from the shell like any other utility like grep.
I have a real simple script to update a table based on a flat file but am concerend as the list keeps getting longer and longer a non valid formatted variable will get introduced and cause issues.
#!/bin/bash
OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=,
file1=file.csv
while read mac loc; do
dbaccess modemdb <<EndOfUpdate 2>/dev/null
UPDATE profile
SET localization= '$loc'
WHERE mac_address = '$mac';
EndOfUpdate
done <"$file1"
IFS=$OLDIFS
The file contents are as such.
12:BF:20:1B:D3:22,RED-1234
12:BF:20:2D:FF:1B,BLUE-1234
12:BF:20:ED:74:0D,RED-9901
12:BF:20:02:69:7C,GREEN-4321
12:BF:20:02:6B:42,BROWN
12:BF:20:ED:74:0D,BLACK
What I am having difficulty with is how can I set a format check of the $mac and $loc variables so if they don't match it stops running. the $loc can be any 19 digits so just need to make sure its not null and not longer. The mac address needs to be not null and in the format as in the file. I found reference in another post to this check but not sure how to integrate.
`[[ "$MAC_ADDRESS" =~ "^([0-9a-fA-F]{2}:){5}[0-9a-fA-F]{2}$" ]]`
Looking for help on how to create the validations.
Thanks,
Check MAC address with regex:
#!/bin/bash
file1=file.csv
while IFS="," read mac loc; do
if [[ "$mac" =~ ^([0-9a-fA-F]{2}:){5}[0-9a-fA-F]{2}$ ]]; then
dbaccess modemdb <<EndOfUpdate 2>/dev/null
UPDATE profile
SET localization= '$loc'
WHERE mac_address = '$mac';
EndOfUpdate
else
echo "Error: $mac"
fi
done <"$file1"
Your regex is for bash only a string if you use quotation marks.
I want to log varnish backend request which matches specified IP (for example 127.0.0.1).
So i have
"varnishlog -b -I BereqHeader:X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1'"
Which actualy logs only the "BereqHeader:X-Forwarded-For:" part. I want to log full request, not only IP part.
That was first question, the second one is: how to disable loging empty request? I mean, if i have regex filter then i have a lot of request looking like this "* << BeReq >> 307454" and i obviously dont want to see them.
I have a solution. Log the data by
varnishlog -b -I BereqHeader:'X-Forwarded-For: 123.215.32.76' -i [other tags to log] > file.varnishlog
and then grep it by
cat file.varnishlog | grep -Pzo '* {3}<< BeReq {4}>>.\n- BereqHeader.+\n(-.\n)*'
which'll give us expected results.
i am using sos job scheduler which support many language.i accept the shell script to write jobs but i am not a shell script writer.i want to implement a following points in job scheduler:
execute a shell script A. script A return "success" if time is between 6:00AM and 3PM.else it return "fail".
on "success" execute a shell script C or on "Fail" it execute shell script B.
Script B and Script C send email with“Success” or “Failure” in subject line.
please help me to sortout the above discuss problem.
Thanks
There are two command line utilities that are helpful in this case:
date: Displays the current time/date in a specified format.
mail: Sends e-mail from the command line.
Since we only need the full hour for our logic I use the date format "+%H" (hour from 0-23). This gives the following script basis:
#!/bin/sh
hour=$(date +%H)
if [ $hour -gt 6 -a $hour -lt 15 ]; then
echo "message body" | mail -s Success <your e-mail address>
else
echo "message body" | mail -s Failure <your e-mail address>
fi
#!/bin/bash
hour=$(date +%H)
recipient="root"
case "$hour" in
[6-9]|1[0-5])
subject="success"
body="message"
;;
*)
subject="failure"
body="message"
;;
esac
echo $body | mailx -s "$subject" "$recipient"