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- From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: ">From " lines and "corrupt folder" msg
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 15:00:34 -0600
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- Sorry, I posted the wrong reply. Here's the correct one.
-
- On Tue, 29 Dec 92 14:37:09 EST tom@crc.doc.ca (Thomas Erskine) said:
- >In article <9212260325.AA18454@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
- >>When one is emailed a folder where each item starts with a "From "
- >>...
- >use. Do you really mail whole mail folders a lot? I've only ever
-
- The kicker here is I want to *receive*, *not* send such folders.
- And whether I receive/send such files in any amount isn't relevant
- to the matter of some people having decided to ignore good manners
- by implementing software that messes up envelops and contents of a
- mail item. Imagine if the snailmail post office people did this to
- ones mail...
- BTW, there is at least one opsys where email is treated with more
- respect and concern for privacy than what seems to be the norm in
- the Unix environment.
-
-
- >>If not, what is the *EXACT* command to give to "vi" in order to
- >>remove those ">"s? Of course *ONLY* on those header lines; I'll
- >>accept any such occurances in the contents of the items (though
- >>not really gracefully...).
- >:1,$s/^>From /From /
- >Should fix any such lines in the file. Unfortunately, if there were any
- >that were inside a message in that folder, those will also be un-marked.
- >I can't think of any automated way to avoid this.
-
- A private reply gave me the following alternative:
- :%s/^>\(From .*\)/\1/c
- which askes for confirmation at each occurrance.
-
-
- And I'm sure someone in the world of Unix gurus can come up with a
- filter that only cleans up header lines which conform to the syntax
- used on the "From " line.
- What bugs me is the nigh impossibility of undoing any harm done to
- the *contents* of the item, and I don't want to mess up things even
- more by also going for occurrances in the item-body.
-
-
- >>A propos, where in the whole email chain does this ">" get prefixed
- >>...
- >The keywords are "history" and "compatability". Unix mail has from the
- >very early days "separated" messages in a folder by lines beginning with
- >"From ". If the messages aren't separated this way then common
- >...
-
- Thanks, Tom. This has cleared up a point I've been curious about
- ever since I was exposed to the SMTP suite of programs in an IBM
- environment. In short, it comes down to not having a unique enough
- item-separator, and/or not sticking each item in its own (spool-)
- file...
-
- I've also requested a solution to this problem on the unix-listserv
- discussion list <unix-listserv@stormking.com>. IMHO it should be
- approached from that side also, and hopefully both MUA-implementors
- and mailing-list implementors can come up with a neat, state-of-the-art
- solution.
-
-
- Regards.
- $$/ F. Scott Ophof <ophof@server.uwindsor.ca>
-
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