Set out to write a simple procmail recipie that would forward the mail if it found the text "ABC Store: New Order" in the subject.
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* ^(To|From).*abc@cdefgh.com
* ^Subject:.*ABC Store: New Order*
{
Unfortunately the subject field in the mail message coming from the mail server was in MIME encoded-word syntax.
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?QUJDIFN0b3JlOiBOZXcgT3JkZXI=?=
The above subject is utf-8 ISO-8859-1 charset, So was wondering if there are any mechanisms/scripts/utilities to parse this and convert to string format so that I could apply my procmail filter.
You may use perl one liner to decode Subject: before assigment to procmail variable.
# Store "may be encoded" Subject: into $SUBJECT after conversion to ISO-8859-1
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* ^Subject:.*=\?
SUBJECT=| formail -cXSubject: | perl -MEncode=from_to -pe 'from_to $_, "MIME-Header", "iso-8859-1"'
# Store all remaining cases of Subject: into $SUBJECT
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SUBJECT=| formail -cXSubject:
# trigger recipe based also on $SUBJECT content
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* ^(To|From).*abc@cdefgh.com
* SUBJECT ?? ^Subject:.*ABC Store: New Order
{
....
}
Comment (2020-03-07): It may be better to convert to UTF-8 charset instead of ISO-8859-*.