To quote the man pages for formail (which as always don't really do the
software justice) but nonetheless are quite fascinating;
formail is a filter that can be used to force mail into
mailbox format, perform `From ' escaping, generate auto-
replying headers, do simple header munging/extracting or
split up a mailbox/digest/articles file. The mail/mail-
box/article contents will be expected on stdin.
It goes on to say;
If formail is supposed to determine the sender of the
mail, but is unable to find any, it will substitute
`foo(_at_)bar'.
If formail is started without any command line options, it
will force any mail coming from stdin into mailbox format
and will escape all bogus `From ' lines with a `>'.
Also contained in the man pages for formail are a few examples of how it
can be used, to strip fields from message headers, or to split up a
digest, or to extract the body of a message. All told, it's compelling
stuff.
HTH!
-Colin.
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Jeff Grossman wrote:
Hello,
I have seen some references to Formail, and was just curious what it is and
what it does? I use Procmail everyday.
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Grossman (jeff(_at_)stikman(_dot_)com)