For those who want From: lines on bk-commits-* mail

Mentioned this when the list was first set up; the decision seemed to be that using a fixed From: line was more polite to people who hadn't volunteered to have their email addresses archived, or more likely to put discussions in the right place, or other things along those lines. Well, for those who would prefer to look at a mailbox summary and know who commits came from, here's a simple way to do it. I'm sure someone on the list can find a more elegant solution.

.procmailrc:
:0
* ^X-Mailing-List:.*bk-commits-head@
{
:0f
| $HOME/bin/set-from.sh

:0 :
bk-commits-head/
}

set-from.sh:
#!/bin/sh

cat > $HOME/.tmp/bk-head-tmp.$$

from=grep '^ChangeSet' $HOME/.tmp/bk-head-tmp.$$ | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' if test -n "$from"; then
formail -i "From: $from" < $HOME/.tmp/bk-head-tmp.$$
else
cat $HOME/.tmp/bk-head-tmp.$$
fi

rm $HOME/.tmp/bk-head-tmp.$$

Just mkdir $HOME/.tmp before trying this. The tmpdir handling is blatantly unsafe, so I don't recommend using /tmp.

Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer