On 29 Sep 2006, at 22:44 , Steve A wrote:
David W. Tamkin wrote:
Seee the formail(1) man page. With -s, +# means to skip the first #
split-out messages and omit them from the output.
I saw the option in the man page, but I don't know what a 'split-out'
message is... until I read below.
Often a mbox file will contain a fake message as the first message in
the mailbox. It is often marked with a subject something like
**DO NOT DELETE THIS MESSAGE**
That's what +1 is usually used for, to skip that pseudo message.
Here's one sample from one of my mbox files:
===BEGIN===
From MAILER-DAEMON Sat Jan 14 23:55:59 2006
Date: 14 Jan 2006 23:55:59 -0700
From: Mail System Internal Data
<MAILER-DAEMON(_at_)akane(_dot_)covisp(_dot_)net>
Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
Message-ID: <1137308159(_at_)akane(_dot_)covisp(_dot_)net>
X-IMAP: 1106083314 0000000004 JunkRecorded NotJunk Junk $NotJunk $Junk
Status: RO
This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not
a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system
software.
If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-
created
with the data reset to initial values.
===END===
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no meaning or control, and with nowhere left to go. You are amazed
that they exist, and they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why.
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