Problem with shell script when parsing email

[fallguy]

Hello,

 

This is my post here, so I'll try to remain this clean and concise

I'm using a .forward file to forward email to a shell script in order to parse out the Subject and Body for later use. It's important that I use a shell script here, rather than perl or another language. After receiving the Subject and Body, I'm trying to forward these to a php script on an external server via curl. However, when I send an email the php script does not receive the Subject and Body. I believe the problem may be with curl, because when I run a simulated email through parse.sh, via cat test.txt | ./parse.sh, both the Subject and Body are properly returned.

 

Here is the content of the .forward file, located at /home/Dave/:

 

|/home/Dave/parse.sh

 

The content of the shell script (parse.sh) is attached. Is the curl command that I'm using not formatted correctly, and/or is there any error is my methods used to parse the Subject and Body?

 

Any help would be appreciated. --Thanks

 

 

 

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[trq]

Can you just post your code? I don't download zip files.

[fallguy]

Thanks for the response. On a side note, this seems to be working on my local setup when running a test, such as echo "Subject: 19800131 Body.." | ./parse.sh. The script.php at the end, however, is failing to recognize the post variables.

 

#!/bin/bash
in=`fold -s -w 64`

BODY=`echo "$in" | sed -n 'H;${g;s/.*\n\n\(.*\)/\1/g;p}'`
BODY=$(echo -n "$BODY" | \
perl -pe's/([^-_.~A-Za-z0-9])/sprintf("%%%02X", ord($1))/seg');

SUBJECT=`echo "$in" | grep -m1 -i 'Subject:.*[0-9]\{8\}.*' | \
sed 's/^Subject:\(.*\)$/\1/'`
SUBJECT=$(echo -n "$SUBJECT" | \
perl -pe's/([^-_.~A-Za-z0-9])/sprintf("%%%02X", ord($1))/seg');

curl -s -d "subject=${SUBJECT}&body=${BODY}" http://www.domain.com/script.php
exit 0