Re-sending selected e-mail messages

Polytropon

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Feb 13, 2013, 6:49:13 PM2/13/13

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I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages
according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or
suggestions for an already existing solution before I start
reinventing the wheel. :-)

The messages in question are stored in MH format. This is a
tree where a mailbox equals a directory, and the individual
files in that directory equal the messages. They are numbered
1, 2, 3, 4, ..., and so on. Each message is in

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

or

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

or maybe even

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

text format. Some of them might contain an attachment, which
is "included" in the file with something like

--Multipart=...
Content-Type: ...;
name="..."
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="..."
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
--Multipart=...---

Some messages are "fully multipart".

So when iterating on ~/Mail/sent/1,2,3,4,5,... I get all the
messages. Each third line, "To:", is the criteria to look at.
If it matches a given recipient, the mail should be sent again.
This can easily be done by the system's mailer which is properly
configured (and uses ISP's MX), so | mail -s "maybe new subject"
is possible. The message should already be properly pre-composed.

What is the easiest way to do this without reinventing the wheel,
or should I? :-)

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Kurt Buff

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Feb 13, 2013, 6:56:06 PM2/13/13

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Perhaps mini_sendmail? Seems fairly capable, and scriptable.

Kurt

Lowell Gilbert

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Feb 13, 2013, 8:38:42 PM2/13/13

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Kurt Buff <kurt...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Polytropon <fre...@edvax.de> wrote:
>> I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages
>> according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or
>> suggestions for an already existing solution before I start
>> reinventing the wheel. :-)

[...]

> Perhaps mini_sendmail? Seems fairly capable, and scriptable.

Or maybe procmail's tools (I'm thinking in particular of procmail,
although there are some other bits and bobs that might relate also)
would serve the particular selection criteria?

Waitman Gobble

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Feb 13, 2013, 10:04:29 PM2/13/13

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On Feb 13, 2013 3:49 PM, "Polytropon" <fre...@edvax.de> wrote:
>
> I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages
> according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or
> suggestions for an already existing solution before I start
> reinventing the wheel. :-)
>

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I'm working on an email related project, you might hack it to work for you.

https://github.com/waitman/elmboxo

check out pmess.c it can do a single message. (the easy way to feed pmess a
single message is actually to feed the single message to elmboxo as it is
coded)

anyway its built to stuff them in a mongodb db, but I.m working on a free
nosql solution that works for my project. you can just chuck all those bits.

an idea.

Waitman Gobble
San Jose California

Robert Bonomi

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Feb 14, 2013, 12:40:32 AM2/14/13

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> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:49:13 +0100
> From: Polytropon <fre...@edvax.de>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-...@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re-sending selected e-mail messages

>
> I need a way to automatically re-sent stored e-mail messages
> according to some criteria and like to ask for advice or
> suggestions for an already existing solution before I start
> reinventing the wheel. :-)
>
> The messages in question are stored in MH format.
>

> What is the easiest way to do this without reinventing the wheel,
> or should I? :-)

procmail is your friend.

cat ~/sent* |procmail -f resendrc

where resendrc is:

emailaddr="f...@bar.baz"

:0
*^To: *${emailaddr}
*^Subject:\/.*$
| formail -I "Subject: {resend} ${MATCH}" | $SENDMAIL -oi -t

Delete the 'formail' if you want the Subject: unmolested.