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Subject:    [Evolution] Changing quotation character.
From:       B S Srinidhi <srinidhi-evo () deeproot ! co ! in>
Date:       2005-10-26 11:15:35
Message-ID: 1130324615.17533.3.camel () srinidhi ! com
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Hello all,

For a long time, I wanted to change the quote character '>', with
something else. I waited for the support to come, but now I decided to
come up with a script that would do this for me.

I've attached a small script that changes the quote character to '|--'
if its a new message. If the message is a reply, then this script
changes the quote character to the first eight characters of the
sender's name (picked from the citation :)

Setup:
~~~~~~
This is what I've done for one of the accounts. I've set the "Server
Type" in "Sending Options", to "Sendmail". I then
(sym)linked /usr/sbin/sendmail to point to this script.

Assumptions:
~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
      * mess822 package [1] is installed. A couple of (careful) grep
        statements should take care of this. 
      * qmail is installed. Changing the 'qmail-inject' line should
        solve the problem.
:)

Things to do:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I'm still learning shell scripting. Need to improve on the following
things: 
      * I'm assuming that any first character that is '>' should be
        replaced. This is not a 'cool' solution. You could have that
        symbol in the first column in your message (or reply) or
        attachment (???) too. 
      * I'm using DJBs mess822 package [1] to get the "From:" address. I
        don't know how to grep only the headers of the email. 
      * I need to find a better way to find the name from the citation. 

Please comment on this script and help me in fixing the above. :)

Hope this script proves to be helpful for someone else too. :)

Srinidhi.

[1] http://cr.yp.to/mess822.html
~~~ 
Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow? 
~~~ 
Now listening to Title: Chuck Berry - My Ding-A-Ling [live]

["change_quote.sh" (change_quote.sh)]

#!/bin/sh 

FILE=`mktemp /tmp/evo.XXXXXX`
cat > $FILE

# Is this message a reply?
name=`cat $FILE | grep "^On" | grep "wrote:$" | cut -d',' -f3 | cut -b2-8`

if [ -z "$name" ]
then
	# No? Then just replace '>' with '|--'
	sed -i -e s/^\>/\|\-\-/g $FILE
else
	# Replace '>' with the name of the sender
	quote="`echo $name\>`"
	sed -i -e s/^\>/"$quote"/g $FILE
fi

# Extract the 'From:' field 
email_id=`cat $FILE | 822field "From:"`

# Now figure out the envelope sender. I know it looks ugly, but works.
# Didn't want to use 'cut' ;)
INDEX=`expr index "$email_id" '<'`
STRLEN=`expr index "$email_id" '>'`

INDEX=`expr $INDEX + 1`
LENGTH=`expr $STRLEN - $INDEX`

MAIL_FROM=`expr substr "$email_id" $INDEX $LENGTH`

cat $FILE | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f"$MAIL_FROM"



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