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6 lbdb-fetchaddr - grab addresses from mails add append them to lbdb
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10 lbdb-fetchaddr [-d dateformat] [-x headerfieldlist] [-c charset] [-a]
11 lbdb-fetchaddr [-v|-h]
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14 lbdb-fetchaddr is a shell script which reads a mail on stdin. It
15 extracts the contents of some header fields (default: `From:', `To:',
16 `Cc:', `Resent-From:', and `Resent-To:') from the mail header (only
17 addresses with a real name) and appends them to
18 $HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.list. For performance issues lbdb-fetchaddr
19 appends new addresses to this file without removing duplicates. To get
20 rid of duplicates, the program lbdb-munge exists, which is run by
21 m_inmail if needed and removes duplicates.
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23 To use this program, put the following lines into your $HOME/.proc‐
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28 lbdb-fetchaddr writes the actual date to the third column of the data‐
29 base by using strftime(3). It uses "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" as the default
30 date format (e.g. "1999-04-29 14:33"). You can change this by using the
31 -d option to select a different date format string as parameter of
32 lbdb-fetchaddr command like
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38 -v Print version number of lbdb-fetchaddr.
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40 -h Print short help of lbdb-fetchaddr.
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43 Use the given date format using strftime(3) syntax.
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46 A colon separated list of header fields, which should be
47 searched for mail addresses. If this option isn't given, we
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51 The charset which will be used to write the database. This
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56 -a Also grab addresses without a real name. Use the local part of
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60 $HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.list
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65 lbdbq(1), lbdb_dotlock(1), procmail(1), procmailrc(5), strftime(3).
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68 Most of the really interesting code of this program (namely, the RFC
69 822 address parser used by lbdb-fetchaddr) was stolen from Michael
70 Elkins' mutt mail user agent. Additional credits go to Brandon Long for
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74 The lbdb package was written by Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de> and
75 is now maintained and extended by Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spin‐
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