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Re: pruning mbox's based on number of messages?

1999-12-11 13:38:01
* Gary Funck (gary(_at_)Intrepid(_dot_)Com) [991211 13:51]:
which uses grep on '^From ' to get the message count.  I think
this isn't exactly right from a MIME-compliance point of view.
Maybe someone will help to clarify this point.

Well, it has to be correct on an mbox mail box...  A line starting with
"From " signals the start of a new message..

jon

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