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Re: Extract last email from an email file (mbox format)

2016-05-27 09:13:32
On Thu, 26 May 2016, Xu Wang wrote:

Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 21:03:15 -0400
From: Xu Wang <xuwang762(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: Extract last email from an email file (mbox format)

Hello, this is....
From: will this be matched?
From how about this one?
---------------------------------end last message

So this is why I am not sure matching regex with "^From " is safe. It
will also match in the body.

As a tradition, when a mail is saved into mbox format, any leading "From" line is prefixed with ">" as in your example.

You could use 'H' or 'h' flag in your little rc file to check headers only.

Zhiliang
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