Whoa. Mind blown. B-)
Thanks for the recipe!
Bob
On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 10:45:55 -0400 [email protected] sez:
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 09:19:25 -0400, Paul Fox said:
> > ken wrote:
> > > scan can't decode the body of a message; you get the raw text output.
> > > Which is why you see the beginning of the MIME multipart marker if your
> > > message is a multipart. Why can't scan do that? Because no one made it
> > > do that. SHOULD it do that? Yes, ...
> >
> > i'm not sure i agree. frankly, the first-line snippet that scan
> > provides instead of a subject is hardly useful enough to be worth it.
> > i'd be just as happy if scan <<Missing Subject>> or somesuch.
>
> The tail end of my usual scan format:
>
> %(decode{subject})\
> %(void{content-type})\
> %<(match multipart)\
> %?(match text/html)\
> %|%<{body} <<%{body}%>\
> %>
>
> In other words, if the outermost MIME time is multipart/* or text/html,
> don't bother with using %body to display the first 10-50 chars of the
> body (depending how long the Subject: line was). That deals with 99% of
> the problem.
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