Content-Length: generation (Re: formail -ds or -s)

Stan Ryckman <stanr(_at_)sunspot(_dot_)tiac(_dot_)net> wrote:
> A couple of months ago (and for the life of me, I can't now remember
> why!) I came up with a case where I would have liked formail to
> generate a Content-Length: header for me.  An option to do that
> might be nice, although you could also work it off the -a/-A switches
Formail can't do it, because it never reads in the entire mail.
Procmail can do it though.
To add a correct Content-Length: field to a message, use:

formail -I "Content-Length: 0123456789" <mailwithoutcontlen |
 procmail DEFAULT='|' /dev/null >mailwithcontlen
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