Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:46:43 +500 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: new fixmail available
I have placed the latest version of fixmail on http://www.mindspring.com/~n8kl/files/fixmail.zip Here is part of the documentation: fixmail examines the mail.dlu file produced by nettamer and removes all egroups ads and optionally the brackets in the subject lines. It can also remove unwanted header information, the beginning > symbols usually in quoted material, html tags and split lines greater than 80 characters long. Your mail can have a mixture of egroups and non-egroups messages. Filters can be set up to delete messages according to user defined rules. 1. Get your mail with nettamer as usual. 2. Exit nettamer and run fixmail on your mail.dlu file. 3. Read your mail either with a text editor or by re-entering nettamer and using its reader. Syntax: fixmail [options] [mail_file] Options start with a dash and then one or more letters. b = backup original mail.dlu to mail.bk, h = remove unnecessary header info and enable filtering, k = remove brackets from subject line, l = divide lines more than 80 characters, p = pause program after messages are processed, q = remove quote > symbol, t = remove html tags, u = don't give fixmail: removed html message, v = print version and exit. mail_file is c:\nettamer\mail.dlu and is needed only if nettamer is in a different directory. In normal operation, fixmail opens and reads mail.dlu one line at a time. The processed mail is stored in a temporary file mail.tmp in the same directory as mail.dlu. The program processes the header and then the body of each message as it is read. Beginning of headers are found by searching for the "+OK" marker and then verifying that the "." occurred two lines previously. The end of the header is determined by the first blank line. The h option causes the program to store only the from: to: subject: and date: headers. Headers are stored in that order regardless of how they appear. The body of the messages are processed according to the l, q, t and u options. The t option removes html tags, the = followed by two digits, and the & codes. It isn't a perfect solution but most html messages will be quite readable. If the b backup option is not used, the original mail.dlu is deleted and the mail.tmp is renamed to mail.dlu. If the backup option is used, any existing mail.bk file is deleted, mail.dlu is renamed to mail.bk, and mail.tmp is renamed to mail.dlu. You can apply simple filter rules to messages as follows: Create a text file called fixmail.flt in the same directory as fixmail.exe. Fixmail.flt has the following syntax: Lines must be 80 characters or less. Lines beginning with ; or # are considered comments and are ignored. Blank lines are also ignored. Any remaining lines are processed in pairs as follows: The first line specifies which header element the rule applies to followed by a substring. A colon and space separates the header type and substring. For example the line subject: escrow flags all messages with the string "escrow" in the subject. Case is ignored. The second line is the action line where you tell the program what to do. Currently you can to three things. A "p" will display a prompt so you can delete or skip the message, a "d" deletes without prompting, a pair of digits beeps the speaker with the specified frequency and duration. You can have five rules defined in fixmail.flt. Onebox: 866 201-0254 EXT 9643 ******************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the single word Unsubscribe as the subject. You MUST use the same address with which you subscribed! ********************************************************
