Uh, I'm gonna guess that Nick is not a Unix user.

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:01:21PM -0700, Nicholas  Thompson wrote:
> > Thanks, Owen.
> >
> >
> >
> > I fooled around with the problem a bit more yesterday and immediately
> > encountered a problem I hadn't expected.  It was easy to collect all the
> > emails from one them in one place, but NOT easy to get an email, with
> it's
> > headers, into text.  Apparently in email (unlike in the forums where I
> have
> > tried this before) the headers are kept in a separate file.
> >
>
>
> I don't know what email client you use, but the unix mbox format has
> email with headers all in one file, which can then be processed by
> other tools (eg perl scripts, procmail, ...).
>
> mbox is used by Thunderbird, Seamonkey and a variety of other email
> clients (I personally use mutt).
>
> Cheers
>
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