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Id: 3126
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Email-Filter
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 1.0
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  Sat Aug 02 13:46:16 2003 MARKSTOS [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: piping of just the header should be allowed
One nice feature of Procmail is the ability to Pipe just the headers somewhere. This is useful for the lbdb-fetchaddr program, which gathers addresses out of the mail header. I would like the pipe() syntax to be updated to support this, perhaps by allows you to pipe arbitrary data instead of the mail message. Here's the page on lbdb-fetchaddr for reference: http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/lbdb-fetchaddr.html I suppose a workaround exits for the current module by creating a new message object using just the headers you want, and using the pipe command on that. That doesn't seem a clean to me as just updating pipe(), though. Thanks, Mark
  Fri Jul 07 17:54:50 2006 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Sat Aug 02 13:46:16 2003, MARKSTOS wrote: Show quoted text
> One nice feature of Procmail is the ability to Pipe just the headers > somewhere. This is useful for the lbdb-fetchaddr program, which > gathers addresses out of the mail header.
I agree. Email::Filter should be able to do this. The problem is the lousy semantics of the pipe method: it takes a list, which means you have to screw around with things like "magic first/last elements" to add options. Why doesn't it take an arrayref or a string as the command, then a hashref of args? Short-sightedness, maybe. pipe should, maybe, be rewritten in terms of something more useful like run_through_program (but with a better name). I will bring this up on the pep list once Email::Filter is the thing getting attention -- unless someone wants to do work on it before I get there!
  Fri Jul 07 17:54:50 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri Aug 02 18:12:09 2013 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
just added in git release soon -- rjbs
  Fri Aug 02 18:12:10 2013 rjbs [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'