UPDATE: I worked this out at home on Manjaro which uses GNU ‘date’ (I assume), but macOS ‘date’ isn’t as foolproof. Also can’t be used against stdin apparently. :\\<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The purpose being to pare their e-mail down to just the receipt part so you can print as few pages as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Used to do this with AppleScript using Mail.app. Going to Thunderbird means a different option needs to be found. Using a Folder Action can do that by calling this script:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
#!\/bin\/bash\n\n# Set to true to write variables to a tmp file (\/tmp\/USPS_debug.txt).\n_debug=false\n\n# cat contents of .eml file, awk removes newlines after '=', tr removes the rest.\n_mess=\"`cat \"$1\" | awk '1' RS='=\\r\\n' ORS= | tr -d '\\r\\n'`\"\nif [ $_debug = true ]; then echo \"_mess: $_mess\" > \/tmp\/USPS_debug.txt; fi\n\n# Extract the UTC 0 date from the Date header, date converts it to locale\n# The Linux\/GNU version of 'date' needs less massaging than the one included with macOS. Same for 'sed', actually.\n#_date=\"`echo $_mess | sed -E 's\/.+Date: ([A-Za-z]{3}, [0-9]+? [A-Za-z]{3} [0-9]{4} [0-9]+(:[0-9]+){2}).+\/\\1 UTC\/g' | date -f -`\"\n# The below two _date var lines are for macOS. You could subshell it into one line, but *meh*.\n_date=\"`echo $_mess | sed -E 's\/.+Date: ([A-Za-z]{3}, [0-9]{1,2} [A-Za-z]{3} [0-9]{4} [0-9]{2}(:[0-9]{2}){2}).+\/\\1\/g'`\"\nif [ $_debug = true ]; then echo \"_date: $_date\" >> \/tmp\/USPS_debug.txt; fi\n_date=\"`date -j -v-7H -f \\\"%a, %d %b %Y %R:%S\\\" \\\"$_date\\\"`\"\n\n\n# Extract the order number.\n_order=\"`echo $_mess | sed -E 's\/.+>([a-z0-9]{8}(-[a-z0-9]{4}){3}-[a-z0-9]{12})<.+\/\\1\/g'`\"\nif [ $_debug = true ]; then echo \"_order: $_order\" >> \/tmp\/USPS_debug.txt; fi\n\n# Extract the section containing the juicy bits, remove more e-mail chaff, fix the tracking link, break up that one big line of code.\n_sec4=\"`echo $_mess | sed -E -e 's\/.+START SECTION 4 -->(.+)<!-- END SECTION 4.+\/\\1\/g' -e 's\/(=3D)|(=C2)|(=AE)\/\/g' -e 's\/(.+)<a hrefh(.+[0-9]{34})>(.+)\/\\1<a href=\\\"h\\2\\\">\\3\/g' -e 's\/([a-z]+>) (<)\/\\1\\n\\2\/g'`\"\nif [ $_debug = true ]; then echo \"_sec4: $_sec4\" >> \/tmp\/USPS_debug.txt; fi\n\n# Get down to the nitty gritty.\necho \"<html>\n<head>\n<style>\nbody { width: 576px; font-size: 0.8em; }\n.pt-5 {margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0em; }\n.bold {line-height: 1em !important; }\n<\/style>\n<\/head>\n<p class=\\\"pt-5\\\">Received: $_date<\/p>\n<p class=\\\"pt-5\\\">Order # $_order<\/p>\n$_sec4\n<\/body>\n<\/html>\" > \/tmp\/USPS-receipt.html\n\nopen \/tmp\/USPS-receipt.html\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nOnly problem I have found is the dragging of messages out of Thunderbird can be interrupted with a replace file warning at the temp folder being used to first store the dragged message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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