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2 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
4 # mailplate — apply templates to mail drafts.
6 # This script reformats mail drafts according to a given template. The
7 # template may be specified on the command line, but mailplate can also use
8 # control information from the template files to automatically select an
9 # appropriate template (--auto). A selection menu feature is planned (--menu).
11 # Applying a template means obtainined select data from an existing mail
12 # message (unless --new is specified) and to fill it into appropriate slots in
13 # the template. Messages are processed in three parts: headers, body, and
16 # The template can define two types of headers: mandatory and preservatory.
17 # Mandatory headers take precedence over headers in the existing message and
18 # thus overwrite them. Preservatory headers instruct mailplate to port their
19 # data from the existing mail message. Headers in the existing message but not
20 # defined in the template are dropped, unless --keep-unknown is given.
22 # Body and signature are separated by '-- '. If this sentinel is not found,
23 # no signature is extracted.
25 # Templates can be interpolated and data filled into slots. Helper slots are
26 # filled with the output of helper commands (which must be defined in the
27 # configuration), environment variable slots are just that, and mail variable
28 # slots can be filled with data obtained by running regexps or commands over
31 # This script can be run in multiple ways:
33 # As a filter, it applies a template to data from stdin and writes the result
36 # Given a file, it modifies the file, unless it cannot write to the file, in
37 # which case it writes to stdout.
39 # When --editor is passed, the script spawns sensible-editor on the result. It
40 # may thus be used as the editor for your mail user agent.
42 # TODO: if headers like From are absent from the mail, they should not be kept
43 # but replaced with a default.
45 # Copyright © martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
46 # Released under the terms of the Artistic Licence 2.0
56 from optparse import OptionParser
62 MAILPLATEDIR = '~/.mailplate' # settings directory
63 CONFFILE = MAILPLATEDIR + '/config' # configuration file
64 SECTION_GENERAL = 'general' # name of general config section
65 SECTION_HELPERS = 'helpers' # name of helpers config section
66 TEMPLATEDIR = MAILPLATEDIR + '/templates' # location of templates
68 COMMENTCHAR = '#' # character commencing a comment line in the template
69 REGEXPCHAR = '*' # character commencing a regexp line in the template
70 COMMANDCHAR = '!' # character commencing a command line in the template
72 KEEP_SLOT_LEADER = '@' # character commencing a keep slot
73 ENV_SLOT_LEADER = '${' # character commencing an environment variable slot
74 ENV_SLOT_TRAILER = '}' # character ending an environment variable slot
75 HELPER_SLOT_LEADER = '$(' # character commencing a helper slot
76 HELPER_SLOT_TRAILER = ')' # character ending a helper slot
78 # headers we want to preserve most of the time, and their order
79 STD_HEADERS = ('From', 'To', 'Cc', 'Bcc', 'Subject', 'Reply-To', 'In-Reply-To')
80 KEEP_HEADERS = { 'KEEP_FROM_HEADER' : STD_HEADERS[:1]
81 , 'KEEP_STD_HEADERS' : STD_HEADERS[1:]
87 ### HELPER FUNCTION DEFINITIONS
91 sys.stderr.write(s + '\n')
93 # obtain a regexp from a line, run it, return score/dict if matched
94 def exec_regexp(line, rawmsg, name):
95 p, r = line[1:].strip().split(' ', 1)
96 m = re.compile(r, re.M | re.I | re.U).search(rawmsg)
98 return (int(p), m.groupdict())
101 # obtain a command from a line, run it, return score if matched
102 def exec_command(line, rawmsg, name):
103 p, r = line[1:].strip().split(' ', 1)
104 s = subprocess.Popen(r, shell=True, stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
105 stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
107 stdout, stderr = s.communicate(rawmsg)
108 if s.returncode == 0:
113 err("W: command '%s' (template '%s') failed to run." % (r, name))
116 def interpolate_helpers(s):
118 helper_begin = s.find(HELPER_SLOT_LEADER)
119 if helper_begin < 0: break
120 helper_end = s.find(HELPER_SLOT_TRAILER, helper_begin)
121 helper = s[helper_begin + len(HELPER_SLOT_LEADER):helper_end]
123 proc = subprocess.Popen(helpers[helper], shell=True,
124 stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=sys.stderr)
125 out = proc.communicate()[0]
126 s = s[:helper_begin] + out.strip() + s[helper_end+1:]
128 err('E: unknown helper: ' + helper)
129 sys.exit(posix.EX_DATAERR)
132 def interpolate_env(s):
134 envvar_begin = s.find(ENV_SLOT_LEADER)
135 if envvar_begin < 0: break
136 envvar_end = s.find(ENV_SLOT_TRAILER, envvar_begin)
137 envvar = s[envvar_begin + len(ENV_SLOT_LEADER):envvar_end]
138 value = os.getenv(envvar) or ''
139 s = s[:envvar_begin] + value + s[envvar_end+1:]
142 def interpolate_vars(s):
146 return interpolate_helpers(interpolate_env(interpolate_vars(s)))
148 # sentinel to use as dict value for preserved headers
149 class _keep_header: pass
152 ### VARIABLE INITIALISATION
166 ### CONFIGURATION FILE PARSING
169 CONFFILE = os.path.expanduser(CONFFILE)
170 MAILPLATEDIR = os.path.expanduser(MAILPLATEDIR)
173 config = { 'default_template' : ''
174 , 'template_path' : TEMPLATEDIR
176 helpers = { 'get_quote' : 'fortune -s' }
178 if not os.path.exists(CONFFILE):
179 # conffile does not exist, let's create it with defaults.
181 if not os.path.isdir(MAILPLATEDIR):
182 os.mkdir(MAILPLATEDIR, 0700)
184 if not os.path.isfile(CONFFILE):
185 f = file(CONFFILE, 'w')
186 f.write('# mailplate configuration\n[%s]\n' % SECTION_GENERAL)
187 for kvpair in config.iteritems():
188 if len(kvpair[1]) > 0:
189 f.write('%s = %s\n' % kvpair)
192 f.write('\n[%s]\n' % SECTION_HELPERS)
193 for kvpair in helpers.iteritems():
194 f.write('%s = %s\n' % kvpair)
198 if not os.access(CONFFILE, os.R_OK):
199 err('E: cannot read configuration file: %s' % CONFFILE)
200 sys.exit(posix.EX_OSFILE)
203 parser = ConfigParser.SafeConfigParser()
204 parser.read(CONFFILE)
206 # first the GENERAL section into the config dict for all keys with defaults
207 for key in config.keys():
209 config[key] = parser.get(SECTION_GENERAL, key)
210 except ConfigParser.NoSectionError, ConfigParser.MissingSectionHeaderError:
211 err("E: no section '%s' in %s" % (SECTION_GENERAL, CONFFILE))
212 sys.exit(posix.EX_CONFIG)
213 except ConfigParser.DuplicateSectionError, ConfigParser.ParseError:
214 err('E: parse error on %s' % CONFFILE)
215 sys.exit(posix.EX_CONFIG)
217 # all HELPERS into the helpers dict
218 helpers.update(parser.items(SECTION_HELPERS))
220 TPATH = os.path.expanduser(config['template_path'])
223 ### COMMAND LINE PARSING
226 parser = OptionParser()
227 parser.usage = '%prog [options] <message>'
228 parser.add_option('-a', '--auto', dest='auto',
229 default=False, action='store_true',
230 help='turn on template auto-discovery')
231 parser.add_option('-m', '--menu', dest='menu',
232 default=False, action='store_true',
233 help='choose from a list of template')
234 parser.add_option('-n', '--new', dest='new',
235 default=False, action='store_true',
236 help='create a new message')
237 parser.add_option('-e', '--editor', dest='edit',
238 default=False, action='store_true',
239 help='spawn editor once template is applied')
240 parser.add_option('-k', '--keep-unknown', dest='keep_unknown',
241 default=False, action='store_true',
242 help='preserve mail headers not specified in template')
243 parser.add_option('-d', '--debug', dest='debug',
244 default=False, action='store_true',
245 help='start a debugger after initialisation')
247 options, args = parser.parse_args()
253 # parse the arguments
256 # filename is -, so do nothing, since stdin/stdout are default
258 elif os.path.isfile(arg):
259 # the file exists, so use it as in/out if read/writeable
260 if os.access(arg, os.R_OK):
262 if os.access(arg, os.W_OK):
264 elif os.access(os.path.join(TPATH, arg), os.R_OK):
265 # argument referenced an existing template
268 err('E: unknown argument: %s' % arg)
269 sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
272 if options.auto and options.menu:
273 err('E: cannot combine --auto and --menu')
274 sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
276 elif (options.auto or options.menu) and templname:
277 err('E: cannot specify a template with --auto or --menu')
278 sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
280 elif not templname and not (options.auto or options.menu):
281 err('E: no template specified')
282 sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
285 err('E: --menu mode not yet implemented')
286 sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
292 # read in the message from a file, if a filename is given.
293 if infname is not None:
294 inf = file(infname, 'r', 1)
296 # read message into buffer, or preinitialise the buffer if --new is given
298 rawmsg = '\n'.join((header + ': ' for header in STD_HEADERS)) + '\n'
300 rawmsg = ''.join(inf.readlines())
303 best_score = (0, config['default_template'], {})
304 for tf in os.listdir(TPATH):
305 tp = os.path.join(TPATH, tf)
306 if not os.path.isfile(tp) or not os.access(tp, os.R_OK): continue
308 # we're iterating all files in the template directory
309 # for each file, obtain and run regexps and commands and accumulate
310 # the score (and variables)
315 if line[0] == REGEXPCHAR:
316 r = exec_regexp(line, rawmsg, tf)
320 elif line[0] == COMMANDCHAR:
321 score += exec_command(line, rawmsg, tf)
323 # do we top the currently best score, if so then raise the bar
324 if score > best_score[0]:
325 best_score = (score, tf, vars)
327 templname = best_score[1]
328 print >>sys.stderr, \
329 'I: Chose profile %s with score %d.' % (templname, best_score[0])
332 # now read in the template
333 templ = file(os.path.join(TPATH, templname), 'r', 1)
335 if not options.auto and line[0] == REGEXPCHAR:
336 # obtain variables from the regexps
337 vars.update(exec_regexp(line, rawmsg, templname)[1])
339 if line[0] in (COMMENTCHAR, REGEXPCHAR, COMMANDCHAR):
342 elif payload is not None:
343 # we're past the headers, so accumulate the payload
347 #TODO multiline headers
350 payload = '' # end of headers
351 elif l[0] == KEEP_SLOT_LEADER and KEEP_HEADERS.has_key(l[1:]):
352 # found predefined header slot keyword
353 for header in KEEP_HEADERS[l[1:]]:
354 headers[header.lower()] = (header, _keep_header)
356 header, content = l.split(':', 1)
357 content = content.strip()
358 if content == KEEP_SLOT_LEADER + 'KEEP':
359 # record header to be preserved
360 content = _keep_header
362 content = interpolate(content)
363 headers[header.lower()] = (header, content)
365 msg = email.message_from_string(rawmsg)
367 for header, content in msg.items():
368 # iterate all existing mail headers
369 lheader = header.lower()
370 if headers.has_key(lheader):
371 # the template defines this header
372 if headers[lheader][1] == _keep_header:
373 # it's marked as keep, thus use content from email message
374 headers[lheader] = (header, content)
375 elif options.keep_unknown:
376 # the template does not define the header, but --keep-unknown was
377 # given, thus preserve the entire header field
378 headers[lheader] = (header, content)
380 # open the output file
381 if outfname is not None:
382 outf = file(outfname, 'w', 0)
384 # print the headers, starting with the standard headers in order
385 for header in STD_HEADERS:
386 lheader = header.lower()
387 if headers.get(lheader, (None, _keep_header))[1] is not _keep_header:
388 # the template header contains mandatory data, let's print it.
389 hpair = headers[lheader]
390 print >>outf, ': '.join(hpair)
391 # and remove it from the dict
394 for i, (header, content) in headers.iteritems():
395 # print all remaining headers
396 if content == _keep_header: continue
397 print >>outf, ': '.join((header, content))
399 # print empty line to indicate end of headers.
402 # split payload of existing message into body and signature
403 body = msg.get_payload().rsplit(SIG_DELIM, 1)
409 body = SIG_DELIM.join(body[:-1]).strip()
410 # signature may now be ''
412 # interpolate the template payload
413 payload = interpolate(payload)
414 # determine whether to interpolate the signature *before* inserting the body
415 # to prevent text in the body from being interpolated
416 keep_sig = payload.find('@KEEP_SIGNATURE') >= 0
417 # interpolate body and signature
418 payload = payload.replace('@KEEP_BODY', body, 1)
420 payload = payload.replace('@KEEP_SIGNATURE', signature, 1)
422 print >>outf, payload.rstrip()
426 # finally, spawn the editor, if we wrote into a file
428 err('E: cannot use --edit without an output file.')
429 sys.exit(posix.EX_USAGE)
431 os.execlp('sensible-editor', 'sensible-editor', outfname)