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Re: Need help demunging Subject header

2002-08-29 05:25:17
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, James C. McMaster (Jim) wrote:

I am sure this has been discussed before, but I looked in the archives (can't
figure out narrow enough search) and on the various FAQ/Tips pages and can't
find an answer...

Several misguided mailing lists add a "[identifier] " token to their Subject:
headers to make their lists "easy" to use.  One list I am on just added a
very long id, which is annoying enough I want to get rid of it with procmail.
 To make it worse, it is not always immediately after Subject.  For replies,
it can look like:

Subject: Re: [identifier] Stuff I would like to keep

        Bart's solution is good for general identifiers.
        If your problem is  one list that you have just add...:

:0 hfw
* ^Subject:.*[VeryLongIdentifier]
|sed 's/^\(Subject:.*\)\[VeryLongIdentifier\]/\1[ShotId]/'

        Information like "Re:" will be kept.

Bye,
 Udi

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