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Using bash mailx or any other programs, would be a way to extract information from an email box and to write the specific information to a file?
Anyone has a clue about this, I have bunch of emails with tracking notifications every day, I would like to extract just the order no and the tracking no, and later to put that information to a FTP, but my problem is how can i extract that kind of information from an email box?
Svan
Posted 2017-02-10T09:57:33.483
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What format of your mailbox? Is it
maildirormailbox(aka Mbox) ? – Alex – 2017-02-10T10:22:04.823Hi Alex, maildir I believe. – Svan – 2017-02-10T11:50:08.457
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– DavidPostill – 2017-02-10T12:05:46.113@Svan you can use
munpackorripmimeto extract content from maildir files but parsing it I think it would be a challenge because ebay inconsistent with email format they are sending, it could be a plain text but recently they sending emails as html with links to tracking number that has also has embedded codes for user tracking which are a random – Alex – 2017-02-10T12:18:27.613If you receive tracking notification email regularly, use
– dirkt – 2017-02-10T13:36:06.327procmailto filter and process mail when it arrives. You can useformailto manipulate header/body of a single mail. I'm not to familiar with maildir, but if it's just a file for each message, usefindetc. to go through all files.@dirkt
Maildirformat is kinda obfuscated, like this=09=09=09=09=09=09Shipping service : USPS Retail Ground, so body of message might be extracted first to parse it in convenient way – Alex – 2017-02-12T22:53:14.817