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From: kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: automatic digestification software
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.154712.10379@talos.pm.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 15:47:12 GMT
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Barry S. Fagin writes:
 > Is there any software out there that takes a collection of
 > mail messages and formats them according to RFC934, the
 > standard for message encapsulation?

RFC 934 digests are easy to produce.  sed(1) can convert a
UNIX-style mailbox to a RFC 934 digest:

sed -e '/^$/{' -e 'n' -e 's/^From .*$/-----/' -e '}' \
    -e '1s/^From .*$/-----/' -e 't' -e 's/^-/- -/'