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Re: stripping headers only from msgs in an mbox?

1999-12-14 00:37:28
gary(_at_)Intrepid(_dot_)Com (Gary Funck) writes:
This may be a FAQ - but what's the easiest way to strip only the
headers from all the e-mails in an mbox?  Let's say, I want to
send only the headers, collected together in an mbox format,
for a group of messages already deposited in an mbox.

Something like this?

formail -s sed -e '/^$/q' < foo.mbox > foo_hdrs.mbox

One process, not N:
        formail -X "" -s < foo.mbox > foo_hdrs.mbox

Beware: any Content-Length: headers in that pile of messages will not
contain the correct value (zero), so any future splitting should include
the -Y flag.


Philip Guenther

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