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Re: [LUG] Evolution filters

 

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 08:47 +0000, Roland Tarver wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, kevin <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does any one use Filters in evolution to do anything other than sorting
> > Mail?
> >
> > I have tinkered with doing a Mail filter where an EMail is printed as
> > soon as it arrives in the inbox ( this is for receiving orders form
> > customers).
> >
> > So far I have a filter working and using the pipe feature in Evolution I
> > can just pipe it to LPR
> > This gives me a printed sheet with all the rubbish you get (ie headers
> > etc) with an Email but the filter dose work very well.
> >
> > Does anyone  already have a script to Start printing from the message
> > Body? so I can pipe it to that then LPR it at the end? or clean up the
> > Email before piping it to LPR?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Kevin Lucas
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> I dont have the script that you are asking for. But to loose the email
> headers could you just use grep, something like....
> 
> 
> cat evolutionEmail | grep -i -A 100 '*subject*' | lpr -p
> 
> 
> Best wishes
> roly
> 
Thanks Roly

I have looked at each Mail and can see the message body starts after the
fist blank line so ...

 sed '1,/^$/ d' <Email | lpr 

removes the Header but if the Email is HTML  it leaves another 1 or 2
pages of rubbish after the Mail 

But we have Progress..

Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) 
Ten Years in the Making!
www.minionsbandb.co.uk
www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk
Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall 
PL14 5LE
01579363386


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