arffilter - Word to the Wise

arffilter - rewrite ARF reports

Download version 1.1 here: arffilter.c

arffilter is a unix filter to rewrite ARF complaints into a format that is more useful in an MUA or simple ticketing system.

It annotates the subject line using metadata from the ARF message/feedback-report object.

It's very lightweight, not doing any MIME extraction, simply assuming that the metadata is in the first message/feedback-report attachment.

To compile:

cc -o arffilter arffilter.c

To use it with procmail, add a rule such as the following, before other processing is done:

      # ARF rewrite script
      :0fw
      | /path/to/arffilter

It accepts four commandline parameters:

-V	Show version
-h	Show usage
-l number	Look for message/feedback-report only in this number of lines from the start of the message (default 200)
-s template	Replace the subject line of the message w ith this string. Within the template tokens of the format %key% will be replaced with metadata take from the ticket. The key should be lowercase ascii and '-' only. The key 'subject' will be replaced with the original email subject. Other keys will be replaced with the corresponding values from the message/feedback-report section. (default [ %source-ip% ] %subject%)