Re: Adding entries to ldap addressbook

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wednesday, February 27 at 06:40 PM, quoth Nathan Huesken:
>I invoke the script this way:
>macro index,pager a '<shell-escape>~/add2ldap<enter>'
>
>It then asks me for the name and eMail (because they are not given as 
>paramters).
>So far so good, but I wonder if it is possible to automaticly extract name and 
>sender from an eMail and pass them as parameters to add2ldap?

Sure, all you have to do is create a script that will extract those 
details.

If, for example, you have DJB's mess822 package installed, you could 
do something like this:

     #!/bin/bash
     FROM=`822field from`
     if [[ $FROM =~ "<*@*>" ]] ; then
         EMAIL=`sed 's/.*<\([^>]*\)>.*/\1/' <<<"$FROM"`
         NAME=`sed 's/ *\(.*\)  *<.*/\1/' <<<"$FROM"`
     else
         EMAIL="$FROM"
         NAME=""
     fi
     exec add2ldap "$NAME" "$EMAIL"

If you don't have the mess822 package, you can do something similar if 
you have the formail (part of the procmail package) binary handy. The 
equivalent command would be:

     FROM=`formail -c -x From`

~Kyle
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