Hi Kieran,
Here's more or less how I extract email addresses
with egrep on the command line.
$ cat /var/mail/<username> | egrep -o "[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]{3,}\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]{2,}" | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | sort | uniq
I hope that helps,
~K
PS: Please don't spam anyone.
On 03/30/11 23:31, Kieran O'Sullivan wrote:
> Hi
> I have a bunch of delivery failures which I want to extract the failed
> e-mail addresses from. My problem is that every mail server sends a
> different message back.
> Has anyone got a script (php would be nice) that can read a file e.g.
> /var/mail/<username> and extract the e-mail addresses of the permenant
> failed addresses?
>> I understand the principle behind this it is just string searching my
> problem is all the combinations of strings to search for.
>> Thanks.
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