bionic (1) lbdb-fetchaddr.1.gz

NAME

       lbdb-fetchaddr - grab addresses from mails add append them to lbdb database

SYNOPSIS

       lbdb-fetchaddr [-d dateformat] [-x headerfieldlist] [-c charset] [-a]
       lbdb-fetchaddr [-v|-h]

DESCRIPTION

       lbdb-fetchaddr  is  a  shell  script which reads a mail on stdin. It extracts the contents of some header
       fields (default: `From:', `To:', `Cc:', `Resent-From:', and `Resent-To:')  from  the  mail  header  (only
       addresses with a real name) and appends them to $HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.utf-8.  For performance issues lbdb-
       fetchaddr appends new addresses to this file without removing duplicates. To get rid of  duplicates,  the
       program lbdb-munge exists, which is run by m_inmail if needed and removes duplicates.

       To use this program, put the following lines into your $HOME/.procmailrc:
            :0hc
            | lbdb-fetchaddr

       lbdb-fetchaddr  writes the actual date to the third column of the database by using strftime(3).  It uses
       "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" as the default date format (e.g. "1999-04-29 14:33"). You can change this by  using  the
       -d option to select a different date format string as parameter of lbdb-fetchaddr command like
            :0hc
            | lbdb-fetchaddr -d "%y-%m-%d"
       which results in e.g. "99-04-29".

OPTIONS

       -v     Print version number of lbdb-fetchaddr.

       -h     Print short help of lbdb-fetchaddr.

       -d dateformat
              Use the given date format using strftime(3) syntax.

       -x headerfields
              A  colon  separated  list  of header fields, which should be searched for mail addresses.  If this
              option isn't given, we fall back to `from:to:cc:resent-from:resent-to'.

       -c charset
              The charset which will be used to write the  database.  This  should  be  the  charset  which  the
              application  expects  (normally the one from your current locale).  If this option isn't given, we
              fall back to `utf-8'.

       -a     Also grab addresses without a real name.  Use the local part of the mail address as real name.

FILES

       $HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.utf-8
       $HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.list (old version used for ISO-8859-15 encoded addresses)

       /usr/lib/lbdb/fetchaddr
       /usr/lib/lbdb/m_inmail

SEE ALSO

       lbdbq(1), lbdb_dotlock(1), procmail(1), procmailrc(5), strftime(3).

CREDITS

       Most of the really interesting code of this program (namely, the RFC 822 address  parser  used  by  lbdb-
       fetchaddr)  was  stolen  from Michael Elkins' mutt mail user agent. Additional credits go to Brandon Long
       for putting the query functionality into mutt.

AUTHOR

       The lbdb package was written by Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de> and is now maintained and extended  by
       Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>.