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1 .Dd 2020-09-09
2 .Dt SCRIBO 1
3 .Os POSIX.1-2017
4
5 .Sh NAME
6 .Nm scribo
7 .Nd email-based gopherlog generator
8
9 .Sh SYNOPSIS
10 .Nm
11 .Op Fl h
12 .Op Fl a Ar address
13 .Op Fl b Ar basedir
14 .Op Fl d Ar datefmt
15 .Op Fl x Ar command
16 .Op Ar file
17
18 .Sh DESCRIPTION
19 .Nm
20 turns emails into a gopherlog, (also named "rlog", or "phlog").
21 .Pp
22 Each mail will be parsed, and written out in plain text. The subject
23 and date of the email are extracted from the headers (according to
24 rfc5322), and used to add a title, and date to each entry.
25 .Pp
26 Emails are read from
27 .Ar stdin
28 by default, or
29 .Pa file
30 if specified.
31 .Bl -tag -width Ds
32 .It Fl h
33 Print a quick usage text.
34 .It Fl a Ar address
35 Only process emails originated from
36 .Ar address .
37 This will be checked against the address found in the rfc5322 "From"
38 header field.
39 .It Fl b Ar basedir
40 Specify directory where log entries and gopher map should be written.
41 .Nm
42 will try to change to this directory, and stop processing if it cannot
43 change to this directory, or write files into it.
44 .It Fl d Ar datefmt
45 Change the date format appended to each entry. Format specified should
46 be a valid format to pass to
47 .Xr strftime 3 .
48 .It Fl x Ar command
49 Pass email body through
50 .Ar command
51 before writing it on disk. Note that this will only affect the email body,
52 not the title or date.
53 .El
54
55 .Sh EXAMPLES
56 Call
57 .Nm
58 from an
59 .Xr aliases 5
60 file:
61 .Bd -literal
62 name+rlog@domain.tld |/usr/local/bin/scribo -b /var/gopher/rlog -a name@domain.tld -x "fmt -w 69"
63 .Ed
64 .Pp
65 Every mail received at
66 .Ad name+rlog@domain.tld
67 will update the gopher log in
68 .Pa /var/gopher/rlog .
69 Every entry will be filtered through
70 .Xr fmt 1
71 to limit text width at 69 chars (for sweet gopher rendering).
72 .Pp
73 To write logs as a specific user, configure the
74 .Xr forward 5
75 file of that user. In
76 .Xr aliases 5 :
77 .Bd -literal
78 rlog@domain.tld user
79 .Ed
80 .Pp
81 Then call
82 .Nm
83 from the user's .forward file, located at
84 .Pa ~user/.forward
85 :
86 .Bd -literal
87 "|/usr/local/bin/scribo -b ~/public_gopher"
88 .Ed
89
90 .Sh ENVIRONMENT
91 .Bl -tag -width "SHELL"
92 .It Ev SHELL
93 This variable defines the shell used to interpret the filter command.
94 The shell must accept the POSIX compliant
95 .Fl c
96 flag to pass the command string.
97 .El
98
99 .Sh SEE ALSO
100 .Xr aliases 5 ,
101 .Xr forward 5 ,
102 .Xr smtpd 8
103
104 .Sh AUTHORS
105 .An Willy Goiffon Aq Mt dev@z3bra.org