I'm trying to export email from Mailsmith into an mbox format that can
then be input to Mailsteward for archival.

I originally got this mail into Mailsmith from Eurora, and things seem a
little mangled.

If I could delete a few lines from each email I think I would end up
with a working mbox format.

Here's an example



******

Date: Thu,  8 Oct 1998 07:55:01 -0600
From: mark david mcCreary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sender: mark david mcCreary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: mark david mcCreary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: accounting time
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Priority: 3
Message-ID:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Mailsmith 2.1.5 (Blindsider)
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 08 07:55:01 1998
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: mark david mcCreary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: accounting time
Cc: 
Bcc: 
X-Attachments: 
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Greetings from Texas.




*****


I want to end up with



********

From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 08 07:55:01 1998
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: mark david mcCreary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: accounting time
Cc: 
Bcc: 
X-Attachments: 
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Greetings from Texas.




*********

I then have hundreds of emails in this same format in one file (mbox).

I want to remove the part from 

Date:
...
...
...
X-Mailer: Mailsmith 2.1.5 (Blindsider)



This clause appears once for each email.

A regular expression of

Date:.*Mailsmith 2.1.5 \(Blindsider\)

sort of works, except that it gets the whole file.

Putting this - non greedy ?

Date:.*?Mailsmith 2.1.5 \(Blindsider\)

does not do any better.




If there are any reg exp experts out there that can whip out an answer,
I'd appreciate  it.

I've given up on using the BBEdit Find and Replace, and will just run
Perl from the command line.  So extra credit if you can do this inside
BBEdit 8.2

Thank you.

mark

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