Re: Extracting just the email address from "From:"

"Matthew" == Matthew G Saroff <msaroff(_at_)pca(_dot_)net> writes:

formail -rtzxTo:


Matthew> Hi, I think that I may have missed something. Shouldn't that
Matthew> be formail -rtzxFrom: instead of formail -rtzxTo:? Itt could
Matthew> be that I am missing one of the finer points (my nature, I'm
Matthew> a mechanical engineer) of formail.

The `fine point' you're missing is the -r flag. It tells formail to
generate a reply message.

Then the other flags ensure that only the contents of the new To:
header are passed out.

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