Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Header stripper Message-ID: <1991Apr2.123656.24499@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 2 Apr 91 12:36:56 GMT References: <1991Apr2.063227.25582@engin.umich.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 21 In article <1991Apr2.063227.25582@engin.umich.edu> mjo@ais.org writes: >I am looking for a program/script that strips extraneous mail header >stuff from my mbox... I generally don't need to see the 20 or so >machines that my mail goes through to get to me. Does anyone have any >suggestions? I will post to comp.mail.headers if I receive a large >body of mail on the subject. What you really need is a mail program with a user interface which does not display these lines. There is a good chance you already have one. Most halfway decent mail programs have a setup file where you can ask it to hide certain headers, so you don't see them. Removing and discarding the 'Received:' headers is usually a bad idea, as you will discover as soon as you run into a message with a bad reply address and need to look at those headers to try to construct a valid reply address. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940