[rt-users] How to read custom email headers

[Ruslan Zakirov]

my $attachment = $self->TransactionObj->Attachments->First;
my $isp = $attachment->GetHeader('X-ISP');
I think this should work.

On 12/27/06, Jonathan Scheidell <jscheidell at secnap.net> wrote:
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> I'm trying to read an email address from a custom header I created and
> assign that variable as a ticket cc.
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> I have RT pulling addresses from the From:, and Cc: fields in the header,
> but I want it to pull an address from a custom header (ie. X-Custom:
> joe at somewhere.com).
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> I have been testing some custom script actions to try and read the header,
> but as of yet have been unsuccessful.
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> I looked through the wiki, and historic rt-users lists, but didn't find
> anything that helped much.
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> I got this to work once on RT3.4 by manually changing the source code (I
> think it was the Notify.pm script) but can't seem to find documentation on
> that.
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> This time around, with RT3.6 I would like to do this with custom script
> actions, that seems to be the "cleanest" way to do it.
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> Here is some of my bumbling so far, I'm trying to tackle the reading portion
> first:
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> The header field is "X-Isp:"
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> Condition:          On Create
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> Action:              User Defined
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> Cleanup Code:
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> my $MIMEObj = $self->TemplateObj->MIMEObj;
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> my $isp = $MIMEObj->head->get('X-Isp');
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> $RT::Logger->notice($isp.  " <-- this is X-ISP.\n");
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> return 1;
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> This yields me an error in the rt.log:
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> Commit failed: Can't call method "head" on an undefined value at (eval 475)
> line 3.
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> I'm not sure if there is some additional functions library I need to include
> that is not in General.pm, but with my limited knowledge of perl I'm having
> a hard time getting through this.
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> --
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> Jon Scheidell
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Best regards, Ruslan.