Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(_at_)orthanc(_dot_)ca> writes:
On Aug 3, 2014, at 12:01 PM, norm(_at_)dad(_dot_)org wrote:
I wondering, if in doing this, you might consider a new nmh command
that would
parse message headers.
And do what with them, exactly?
One example: Get the effective content part of an 'X-Spam-Status" header. (By
"effective" I mean after unraveling line continuations etc) as part of script
that classifies Email. Yes, I know, I could workaround, here, by assuming that
this header and its content almost always, probably always, has a canonical
form, and that the mis-classifications because of the very occasional
occurrence of this canonical form, elsewhere in a file, will not do much harm.
More generally, I believe that, nearly from its very inception, mh/nmh
commands have been too complicated. They do too much, violating the "Do one
thing and do it well" precept. The command I suggested is one tiny step toward
having commands that do RELATIVELY simple things.
Norman Shapiro
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