[CentOS] email subject length issue

Thu Apr 13 17:07:32 UTC 2017
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>

On 4/12/2017 4:17 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> Oh I understand now what is happening. The subject is coming in as three
> lines.
>
> Subject: Tornado Monday, 03/27/2017 at 20:27:02. The Point BB.OBSURGRH is
>   in Alarm at PRI3 with a value of 63.4 %.Informational Text: OB SURGERY
>   HUMIDITY ALARM
>
> I'm not getting the second two lines.
>
> How "should" one correctly get the subject ???
>
> What I did was in my .procmailrc file
> SUBJECT=`cat | grep Subject:`
>
> So this resulted in only the first line and not grabbing the additional 2
> lines.
>
> Is there a way to correctly get the subject that I have not found?

You'll need to grab the line that starts with "Subject:" and then 
continue grabbing lines until you find one that doesn't start with 
whitespace.  I don't think you can do this with grep, but you should be 
able to do it with perl, sed, or awk.

-- 
Bowie