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Re: How to get rid of annoying +OK nnnn octets strings

2001-07-06 06:01:33
maybe you could use something like

:0
* ^FROM or ^TO statement
{
        :0 fbw
        |sed -e '/\+OK.*[0-9]*.*octests/d'
        :0:
        some_folder
}

This way it uses sed -e as a filter which deletes any +OK nnnn octests from the email

Marc van Duivenvoorde.


At 01:08 AM 7/6/2001 -0700, you wrote:
At 16:57 2001-07-05 -0700, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
IE 5.x, Netscape, mutt, and Pine-originated messages, I get a "+OK nnnn octests" (where nnnn is some number) just below the From jmcoopr some-date line in the messages I receive. This confuses Balsa no end. Manually deleting the +OK string make Balsa happy, but: 1) I can't figure out why procmail is appending this string to my inbound messages;

Procmail isn't.  Unless you have a recipe doing it.

This is a POP thing - and if you're seeing it in the messages at procmail, then chances are you're fetching mail with a utility such as fetchmail, which despite the "mail" suffix, isn't related to procmail in any way.

2) I can't figure out any way to eliminate this string from these messsages automatically;

Fix your POP retrieval. I've had fetchmail set up on some ancillary accounts for several years, and I've never seen this behaviour.

and 3) manually deleting is not practical when I receive several hundred messages per day.

Fix your POP retrieval.

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