Re: formail rough spot

Era wrote:

E> In the meantime, can you filter it before passing it to formail?

E>     :0fhw
E>     | sed -e '/^[^ ]+ +:/!b' -e 's/ +:/:/'

Holger Wahlen suggested,

W> Or shorter:
W>      sed '/^[^ ]+ +:/s/ +//'

Ooh, a short code challenge:

        sed '/^[!-~]/s/ *:/:/'

If it weren't for continuation lines it could even be

        sed 's/ *:/:/'