Re: editing body of message with Formail

David W. Tamkin wrote:

> You have two options, Tom: either reattach those orphaned headers to the head
> or delete the orphaned headers.  I'd go with the first, because then the copy
> you keep will also have full correct headers.
>
>  :0fwh
>  * ^From:(_dot_)*me(_at_)work
>  | formail -X ""  # space required between X and quotes
>   :0ac
>   ! mypager(_at_)pagenet(_dot_)net
>
> If you want to go the second way,
>
>  :0c:
>  * ^From:(_dot_)*me(_at_)work
>  $DEFAULT
>   :0Afwb # remove first paragraph from body
>   | sed 1,/^$/d
>   :0a
>   ! mypager(_at_)pagenet(_dot_)net
David,

Thank you for your assistance.  Your second recipe accomplishes what I want to 
do
quite nicely.

The first recipe also worked for getting the required text to the pager, but 
didn't
leave the original message body or the subject line in my inbox.

Thanks again,

Tom