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

lbdb-fetchaddr [-d dateformat] [-x headerfieldlist] [-a]

lbdb-fetchaddr [-v|-h]

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.list. 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"

-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'.

-a

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

$HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.list

/usr/lib/lbdb/fetchaddr

/usr/lib/lbdb/m_inmail

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

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.

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