Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!irie.ais.org!mjo From: mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Header stripper Message-ID: <1991Apr2.154149.3899@engin.umich.edu> Date: 2 Apr 91 15:41:49 GMT References: <1991Apr2.063227.25582@engin.umich.edu> <1991Apr2.123656.24499@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Reply-To: mjo@ais.org Organization: Artificial Intelligence Society Lines: 30 In article <1991Apr2.123656.24499@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: : 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. Sorry... poor choice of words in my initial post. I not only don't want to SEE the headers, but I also don't want to KEEP the headers. I use elm, and find that I am making large folders that are half headers! I would like some automagic way of stripping those headers. : 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. In most cases, I will already know that the address involved is Reply-To:-able. I just don't want 60 lines of header per message, and am wondering if there's a simple way to do that. (Editing folders by hand is NOT simple.) Thanks for your reply. ____ Mike O'Connor