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Re: burst digests?



Stephen --

...and then Stephen said...
% 
% On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:10:12PM -0500 or thereabouts, David T-G wrote:
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% > % I know that procmail can burst digests, (and I might have to use that
% > 
% > Do you mean turn a digest of "messages" back into a bunch of emails?
% 
% Yep.

OK.  New term for me; I've always heard 'explode'.  [Gee, it seems that
there is a lot of rather messy aggression toward digests!]


% 
% > Generally this can't really be done because waaaaaay too little data from
% > the original email is in the digest.  You could fake it by making up a
% > lot of stuff, and procmail may do that with the help of formail, but in
% > general I don't think you're actually getting anything like the
% > originals.
% 
% As long as the relevant return info, and correct subject is kept, that's
% OK. I only want to burst individual messages, that I'm responding/replying 
to. 
% That's why I'm hoping for a mutt solution, as opposed to formail/procmail one.

Right.  But speaking of procmail...  Why not just get the regular
messages and procmail them off to a list folder?

OK...  Back to your question, since you insist on doing it your way...
Since you'd be wildly making up M-IDs and your threading would be shot,
you might as well use the M-ID of the digest, so you'd probably be
closest with turning on edit_hdrs and then using a macro/function/* in
your editor to, once you've zipped down to the right message, delete the
content above and below it and transfer the address into the to: field
and then actually reply.  Ugh :-)


% 
% > maildir spool) and there you are.  But that's only if they're real
% > messages that are attached to an email instead of the sad shadows that
% > they have been in my experience.
% 
% I'm afraid you're most likely correct. In this case the digest is from
% Yahoo Groups. ;)

Gaaa!  Run!  Avoid it like the plague :-)


% 
% Thanks.


HTH & HAND & good luck

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