On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 9:51 PM, John Levine
<johnl-procmail(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com> wrote:
I think I have a fundamental misunderstanding somewhere. Perhaps I am
not using the mbox format? The file I wish to get last message of is
the send file from mutt. Here is the last message, for example:
---------------------------------begin last message
From xu(_dot_)wang762(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com Thu May 26 20:55:32 2016
That line begins with From followed by a space, which
is what '^From ' matches. You might want to look for
some tutorials on regular expressions if you don't
understand how they work.
Regular expressions are actually the only part of this conversation
that I feel much confidence in.
From: will this be matched?
Nope, has a colon.
From how about this one?
If the mbox is created by any of the usual mail programs,
the mail program puts a > in front of any line that might
otherwise match '^From '
OK this is the root of the misunderstanding. I'm not sure why but mutt
has not done this.
Kind regards,
Xu
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