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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: A better way to "comment out" forwarded message headers?
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Date: 14 Feb 91 01:35:36 GMT
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In <m0j6MZ2-00009HC@ora.ora.com> jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek) asks
about a better way of avoiding seeing lots of old headers in
re-re...re-sent messages.

Although I don't have a solution, I have a solution to a *differnet*
problem :-) that might be adaptable.  My strategy for filing bounced
mail was to "inc" it into a regular mail message with the script below,
which I call "incit".  It works with most bounced messages though
probably not all.

#! /bin/sh
# given a bounced message, looks for "Unsent message follows" line
# and incorporates rest as a real message.  -- Rahul Dhesi
tmp=/tmp/$$
trap "/bin/rm -f $tmp; exit" 0 1 2 15

if test $# -lt 1; then
   echo 'usage:  incit msg ...'
   echo "(bounced messages are inc'd as real messages.)"
   exit 1
fi

for msg in `pick "$@"`; do
   show "$msg" -noshowproc -noheader | 
      sed -e '1,/----- Unsent message follows -----/d' > $tmp &&
      inc -file $tmp
done
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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