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From: tr@madeleine.ctt.bellcore.com (tom reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Extra From's and Date's
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Date: 28 Nov 89 18:48:51 GMT
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On the subject of "Extra From's and Date's", schwager@m.cs.uiuc.edu
writes:

$ 
$ I'm curious: why does spost (we run Berkeley systems here) insist on
$ prepending Date: and From: fields to my outgoing messages?  I think this is
$ extra-redundant information.  I mean, after half a dozen Date's and From's
$ and Received By's, who wants to see another one?  I've gone so far as to
$ edit the source and add a -nofrom switch.  If the denizens of MH would like
$ to know what I did to add this (a mere 4 or 5 lines to send.c and spost.c,
$ combined), I'd be happy to show 'em.
$ 
$ Am I the only one that's ever said, "Now why the heck do they throw that
$ in, and not give you a switch to turn it off?"
$ In favor of leaner mail messages,
$ -Mike Schwager

I don't see why it's a problem.  In my .mh_profile, I have

	showproc: mhl

and mhl uses ~/Mail/mhl.format or <mhdir>/etc/mhl.format.  My
private copy is:

	overflowtext="***",overflowoffset=5,width=256,
	leftadjust,compwidth=10
	ignores=msgid,message-id,received,bboard-id,bb-posted,return-path,x-mailer
	From:
	To:
	Date:
	Subject:
	Cc:
	extras:nocomponent
	:
	body:nocomponent,overflowtext=,overflowoffset=0,noleftadjust

so I never see that garbage.

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