jammy (1) lbdb-fetchaddr.1.gz

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       lbdb-fetchaddr [-d dateformat] [-x headerfieldlist] [-c charset] [-a] [-f databasefile]
       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  the  database  file,  which  defaults  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.

       -f databasefile
              Use   the   given   file   for  storing  the  grabbed  addresses  instead  of  using  the  default
              $HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.utf-8.

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>.