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Re: Howto strip attachments from digest ???



Michael D Schleif <mds@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2003-09-18 18:17]:
> Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2003:09:18:11:27:17+0930] 
> scribed:
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:08:03PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> > > - --iq/fWD14IMVFWBCD
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > > Content-Disposition: inline
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > > 
> > > Sometime earlier this year, I saw some solution to this, whether here,
> > > or in procmail, or wherever.
> > > 
> > > Some mailing lists allow get requests to retrieve ranges of prior
> > > messages.  When I receive them, they are in the form of a main body, and
> > > each individual message is an individual attachment to that main body.
> > > 
> > > Yes, I can manually view-attachments, and manually save each to its
> > > place.
> > > 
> > > How can I automate this?  I have several hundred to break out, and I
> > > want some automation ;>
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > This has been discussed before. I use this all the time as I get the
> > mutt lists in digest form. Essentially you just pipe the digest to
> > "metamutt -D". This opens a new mutt window using a temporary mail
> > directory and a temporary muttrc file created by metamutt. You then have
> > all the separate messages in the mutt window. You could easily modify
> > this to create a new mailbox. Some digests are a bit mixed up, so I
> > first pipe the digest to a samll script I call premutt to clean them up
> > before piping them to metamutt. You should find all this in the archives
> > of the mutt list.
> 
> What is `metamutt'?  I searched the archives, and came up with three (3)
> hits, none of which tell me anything about metamutt . . .

see <http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/> and scroll down..


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