23 Jun
2008
23 Jun
'08
8:30 p.m.
It works OK on the test line you provided; my guess is your datafile has other lines that match "SMTP" in other fields of the source.
Yeah when I echo'ed a single email into it everything was fine, but the file wasn't. I looked at it in vi and saw all the dos carriage returns so added a tr -d '\r' before the awk.
I will check out the sed statement, thanks! jlc