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Re: viewing attached mbox



On Monday, 11 December 2006 at 01:30:12 EST,
   Bill Moseley (<moseley@xxxxxxxx>) wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 05:49:31PM -0500, James wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> What about using procmail to detect the message then rewrite it into a
> message with multiple message/rfc822 attachments as it arrives?

More specifically, a script like

http://examples.oreilly.com/mailing/mkdigest

can take care of this for you, either invoked from procmail as suggested
above or as a script that you run on the mbox file manually and whose output
you have redelivered to you (again either manually or by piping it to
your MTA).

-- Sweth.

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