Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:27:22 -0500 From: Richard Feltenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: new fixmail available
Thanks, mark, that does work. Richard Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:44:39 +0500 >Another way you can get what you want is to instead of saving a >file go ahead and use the alt-f for forward mail and then place >something into the address like a "X" or even 1 space from the >space bar, which is what I use. Then what you have in your mailbox >of Nettamer is what you want, with a mail.$?? name. Go ahead and >rename that file and you've got the clean copy without all of the >header trash that you get when saving. I find this works great for >messages that I want to save for future use and I'm just to busy or >not interested in editing out all of that header stuff! Atleast it >works great for me! >Mark >On 2002-02-26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:20:33 -0500 >-I have always wished that Nettamer would allow me to save my >-messages or print them without those long headers. This program >-does the job, and I can clean up my archived message ".pru" files. >-I haven't tried the filters yet. >-Thanks for the program! >-Richard >-Original message 2002-02-26 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >->Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:46:43 +500 >->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 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 >->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! ********************************************************
