Re: Adding entries to ldap addressbook
Hi,
Thansk, that makes a lot of sense.
Unfortantly, it does not yet work completly. I want the script to scan the
eMail for default values, but afterwards ask the user to confirm or correct
these default values.
So the script needs to get the eMail from stdin, but also be intaractive with
the user (utilizing the read command).
If I do:
<pipe-message>script<enter>
The read command just exits, as if I press enter.
Both
<pipe-message><shell-escape>script<enter>
<shell-escape><pipe-message>script<enter>
Both do not work :(
Thanks!
Nathan
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:03:14PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
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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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