Don't ask me why but I have to deal with a separator which is :
<bigger><bigger>---- COUPEZ ICI ---- CUT HERE ---- COUPEZ ICI ---- CUT
HERE -------</bigger></bigger>
With a white line before and a white line after.
How do I set my <<MSGSEP> to deal with the whites lines (actually they
are just CR)? I've tried a bunch of things and it doesn't work. The
best, so far, are messages correctly separated but with no "subject",
"date" and "from" fields.
How do I have to say "the separator is these three lines, two of them
being blanks ?"
You can't. MHonArc only supports single line separators.
However, there is a work-around. You can write a simple preprocessor
that strips out the blank line after the separator and pipe the
output to MHonArc. For example:
shell% fixsep funky.mbox | mhonarc -msgsep "..." -- -
2.0.1 of mhonarc allows you to specify stdin as the source of
a mailbox. You need the "--" to terminated option parsing so the
"-" will be treated as stdin. Replace "..." with the ugly message
separator. Plus, define any other options you may desire.
Your "fixsep" script might look like the following:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$msgsep = "<bigger><bigger>---- COUPEZ ICI ---- CUT HERE";
while (<>) {
print STDOUT $_;
scalar(<>) if /^$msgsep/o;
}
The script does not remove the preceding blank line of the
separator, but it probably does not matter.
Hope this helps,
--ewh
