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Re: ideas on splitting mail saved by Outlook to IMAP folder

2006-05-29 01:50:45
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:56:50PM -0700, Gary Funck wrote:

As it turns out, "formail -s" will place a '>' in front of the
second From_, apparently because there is no intervening new line
to terminate the message body?  However, the Content-Length of
42 on the first message is apparently correct in that it counts
the 42 characters in the message (not inclusive of the final new
line).

Have you read "man formail"?  Pay particular attention to the
following formail options and decide which of them you need to
solve your problem:

   -b, -Y, -d, -e


Excerpted from the fine man page:

       -b   Don't  escape any bogus mailbox headers (i.e., lines starting with
            `From ').

       -Y   Assume  traditional Berkeley mailbox format, ignoring any Content-
            Length: fields.


       -e   Do  not  require  empty  lines to be preceding the header of a new
            message (i.e.,  the messages could start on every line).

       -d   Tell formail that the messages it is supposed to split need not be
            in  strict mailbox format (i.e., allows you to split digests/arti-
            cles or non-standard mailbox formats).  This disables  recognition
            of the Content-Length: field.

dman

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