[gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails

[gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails

[Stroller]

'Sup Gentoo?

I'm working on a daily cron job to email me daily. It happens to be  
details of new shows available for download on the BBC's iPlayer  
website. OMG! get_iplayer rocks!

If I have the following in my crontab:

0 8 * * *	/usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z "Daily Summary" 2>&1 | grep -v  
^Added

Then the email's subject is ugly.

A bit of Googling [1] shows me that:

0 8 * * *	/usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z "Daily Summary" 2>&1 | grep -v  
^Added | mailx -s "iPlayer Daily Summary" stroller

which gives a neater subject line.

However the "from: " address is stroller@host.long.domain, which I  
feel is a little untidy.

It's probably OCD of me to care, but I would prefer the mails to  
appear in my mail client as from "iPlayer".

Can anyone suggest a better solution than writing a wrapper script as  
described at:
    http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg223401.html
please?

This is a great answer, but it means I have extra wrapper scripts  
cluttering up my system, and since I will probably want multiple  
summaries (say weekly reports of "drama" and "comedy" categories,  
delivered on different days) it would mean I need either multiple  
wrapper scripts, or a single much more complicated one.

I am probably making my life complicated just for the pernicketyness  
of it, but any suggestions gratefully received.

Stroller.



[1] http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1261393668323+28353475&threadId=886847

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing subject and from lines of cron emails

[reader]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:

> However the "from: " address is stroller@host.long.domain, which I
> feel is a little untidy.

Hopefully you use sendmail as mta.  If so either, Masquerading or
generics table can rewrite in or out going mail far as from field.

I'm familiar only with sendmail and masquerading.  Sendmail can be
made to masquerade as a certain doemain fairly painlessly... If
interersted I can provide details.

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing subject and from lines of cron emails

[walt]

On 12/21/2009 03:35 AM, Stroller wrote:

> OMG! get_iplayer rocks!

Very cool, thanks.  I can't answer your question, but I'm listening to
A Celtic Heartbeat from Radio Wales just 15 minutes after I saw this,
so thanks for the tip and happy holidays :o)

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing subject and from lines of cron emails

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Monday 21 December 2009, Stroller wrote:

> A bit of Googling [1] shows me that:
> 
> 0 8 * * *	/usr/local/bin/get_iplayer -z "Daily Summary" 2>&1 | grep -v
> ^Added | mailx -s "iPlayer Daily Summary" stroller
> 
> which gives a neater subject line.
> 
> However the "from: " address is stroller@host.long.domain, which I
> feel is a little untidy.
> 
> It's probably OCD of me to care, but I would prefer the mails to
> appear in my mail client as from "iPlayer".

Some (don't know about gentoo's) versions of the "mail" command have a "-r" 
switch that lets you specify the "from" address.

In any case, if, instead of mail/mailx, you use a sendmail-compatible agent 
like ssmtp, there you'll definitely have a -r option.

[gentoo-user] Re: get_iplayer rocks!

[Stroller]

On 21 Dec 2009, at 22:23, walt wrote:

> On 12/21/2009 03:35 AM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> OMG! get_iplayer rocks!
>
> Very cool, thanks.  I can't answer your question, but I'm listening to
> A Celtic Heartbeat from Radio Wales just 15 minutes after I saw this,
> so thanks for the tip and happy holidays :o)

I'm just really impressed by get_iplayer.

It makes it easy to schedule recordings, so that you just create a  
search for a series name using the --pvr related options and the whole  
series downloads automagically. I always miss the first episodes of  
"Have I Got News For You" when a new series starts, because I never  
notice that it's on until weeks later, but now never again - the  
search is stored, so any new shows will be downloaded.

If you add "tvmode = flashhd,flashvhigh" to your .get_iplayer options  
then the shows are downloaded in hi-def 720p. They're converted to mp4  
container (the streams are already in the right codecs) and they play  
on the PS3. The video quality is really quite good indeed.

I've got my get_iplayer output directory set to one that MediaTomb  
knows about (via inotify), so anything new is just there ready waiting  
to be watched. I find the command-line options slightly obscure, but  
aside from that get_iplayer will revolutionise my TV watching - it  
makes it easier than piracy!

I miss out on the best of BBC radio because I'm rarely driving when  
it's on, and I just don't listen at home. A customer of mine gave me  
an old iPod mini a while back - is an obsolete model, but its 4gig  
memory is still enough for hours of shows - so I've bought a £7 radio  
transmitter on eBay so I can time-shift radio, too. That's gonna be  
great, too!

Stroller.