Re: viewing attached mbox
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:12:48PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * James <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [12-04-06 17:55]:
> > Whenever my boss wants to forward multiple emails to me, he rolls up
> > all those emails into an mbox and then attaches that mbox to an
> > email. It works quite well except I have to save the attachment and
> > run a new mutt session on the resulting mbox.
>
> pipe the attachment thru formail (procmail utility) and direct the
> output to an mbox file, then write a macro to start another instance of
> mutt opening the submect mbox file.
>
> formail -ds procmail [-m sandbox.rc or none] < file.txt or,
> formail -ds procmail < file.txt
> -s (split digest or xx), pipe a file back into system as if just rec'd
> -d Tell formail that the messages it is supposed to split need not be
> in strict mail-box format
> formail -s procmail < file.name
Maybe there is a way to pipe the attachment through metamutt and that
would open up the atatchemnt as a index of articles like it does does
for digest e-mails.
> # -------------------------------------------------------
> Here is a great tutorial on procmail:
> http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/
> # -------------------------------------------------------
>
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