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From: indra@hobbes.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Can headers be stripped when saving/printing mail?
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Date: 6 May 89 00:06:54 GMT
References: <4030@mipos3.intel.com>
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In article <4030@mipos3.intel.com> tom@ismdqa.intel.com (Tom Soukup ~) writes:
>...  We have a number of users who have
>just moved from a VMS system to Ultrix and the number 1 question they have
>about mail is can they save or print a mail message without the header.  

A shell script is provided as part of the utilities called: printmail
It prints mail separated either by a line of dashes or a page break.
The amount of header information is just adequate.

If you really really really dont want ANY header information, you can use the
'readmsg' utility with the '-n' flag. Infact, you could modify the 'printmail'
script to invoke readmsg with the -n flag. (By the way, how would you know who,
when and where the mail came from if you dont have any headers? But that is your
concern.)

Hope this helped.

Indra K. Singhal                      
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