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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       lbdb-fetchaddr [-d dateformat] [-x headerfieldlist] [-c charset] [-a]
       lbdb-fetchaddr [-v|-h]

DESCRIPTION

       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"
       which results in e.g. "99-04-29".

OPTIONS

       -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’.

       -c charset
              The charset which will be  used  to  write  the  database.  This
              should  be  the  charset which the application expects (normally
              the one from your current locale).  If this option isn’t  given,
              we fall back to ‘iso-8859-15’.

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

FILES

       $HOME/.lbdb/m_inmail.list
       /usr/lib/lbdb/fetchaddr
       /usr/lib/lbdb/m_inmail

SEE ALSO

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

CREDITS

       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.

AUTHOR

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