[9fans] archive outgoing mail

[9fans] archive outgoing mail

[Matthias Teege]

Moin,

I want to archive outgoing mail in a monthly
mbox. I read the 9fans archive and found some
hints about acme mail. But what about mail
created whith nedmail.

Is pipefrom the place I'm looking for? Should
I use upas/deliver or can I simply copy the
mail to an mbox?

Many thanks
Matthias

Re: [9fans] archive outgoing mail

[mirtchov]

the following archives outgoing mail daily, easy to modify for monthly
archival:

% cat /mail/box/andrey/pipefrom
#!/bin/rc

rfork e
ramfs

TMP=/tmp/pipefrom.$pid
datum=`{mdate}
fileto=/mail/box/$user/sent/$datum

test -e $fileto || {touch $fileto; chmod +a $fileto}

cat > $TMP

cat $TMP >> $fileto
echo '%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%' >> $fileto

# collect upas/send options
options=()
while (! ~ $#* 0 && ~ $1 -*) {
	options=($options $1);
	shift
}

# collect addresses and add them to my patterns
dests=()
while (! ~ $#* 0) {
	dests=($dests $1);
	shift
}

# send mail
upas/send $options $dests < $TMP
%

you need to mkdir /mail/box/$user/sent for this to work...

mdate is a very simple program that prints the date in a format that's
easily sortable:

% cat $home/src/cmd/mdate.c
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>


void
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	Tm *t;

	USED(argc, argv);

	t = localtime(time(0));

	print("%4.4d-%2.2d-%2.2d", t->year+1900, t->mon+1, t->mday);

	exits(0);
}
%

one problem with this scheme -- the you can't use upas/fs on the
sorted emails (they have different format than the one in your inbox).
I haven't bothered to fix it, though a bit of sed-ing would suffice.