Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-07 Thread Greg Minshall
Michael, > Wow. Please share :-) presumably, you didn't really mean it (thus the :-). but, here they are anyway, in the format i keep them (a makefile puts them in ~/Mail/mhl.headers). cheers, Greg ; 1 these are all the fields i want to ignore when displaying a message. ; 2 automatically

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-07 Thread Michael Richardson
Greg Minshall wrote: > fwiw, i'm up to 732 ignored components. but, i'm happy adding them as Wow. Please share :-) > needed -- always the optimist that some day, some vital, otherwise > un-acknowledged, header will show up in an e-mail i am viewing. I feel the same way.

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-07 Thread Bob Carragher
On Sun, 06 Jun 2021 10:22:38 -0700 Jon Steinhart sez: > Ken Hornstein writes: > > >Out of curiosity, then what is the value of "extras?" Was there > > >a time it provided value, before header content exploded? > > > > Well, I don't mean to crap on anyone, Robert Elz in particular, but > > you

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Jon Steinhart
George Michaelson writes: > I do occasionally look at X-List-Archive: to get a url for the thread, to > pass to other people. Thats the only novel header I view and I can do that > with the file path from mhpath and grep when I need it. > > G I have an alias that cats the current message in case

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi George, > I do occasionally look at X-List-Archive: to get a url for the thread, > to pass to other people. Thats the only novel header I view and I can > do that with the file path from mhpath and grep when I need it. That seems the simplest way. However, $ anno -list -component

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread George Michaelson
I do occasionally look at X-List-Archive: to get a url for the thread, to pass to other people. Thats the only novel header I view and I can do that with the file path from mhpath and grep when I need it. G

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Sun, 06 Jun 2021 12:29:15 -0400 From:Ken Hornstein Message-ID: <20210606162916.bb968d5...@pb-smtp2.pobox.com> | But I think Robert comes from an era BEFORE everyone started cramming | non user-readable metadata into email headers. That I did. Back then

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Greg Minshall
fwiw, i'm up to 732 ignored components. but, i'm happy adding them as needed -- always the optimist that some day, some vital, otherwise un-acknowledged, header will show up in an e-mail i am viewing. cheers, Greg

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ken Hornstein writes: > >Out of curiosity, then what is the value of "extras?" Was there > >a time it provided value, before header content exploded? > > Well, I don't mean to crap on anyone, Robert Elz in particular, but > you can kind of see what I would call the original MH thinking here: > >

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Out of curiosity, then what is the value of "extras?" Was there >a time it provided value, before header content exploded? Well, I don't mean to crap on anyone, Robert Elz in particular, but you can kind of see what I would call the original MH thinking here:

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-06 Thread Bob Carragher
On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 19:35:40 -0400 Ken Hornstein sez: > >> Brilliant idea! I too would use an inverse match logic. Shorter rules, > >> easier to apply, probably faster. > >> > >> G > > > >I guess that I should interpret that as no, there isn't such an incantation > >but since I brought it up

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-05 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ken Hornstein writes: > >> Brilliant idea! I too would use an inverse match logic. Shorter rules, > >> easier to apply, probably faster. > >> > >> G > > > >I guess that I should interpret that as no, there isn't such an incantation > >but since I brought it up then it's my job to write the code so

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-05 Thread Philipp Takacs
Hi [2021-06-05 15:16] Jon Steinhart > Is there any incantation for "show only the headers explicitly listed > in mhl.format" so that new and uninteresting headers from everybody's > latest spam filter, mailing list manager, and internal tracking don't > fill the screen. You can remove the

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-05 Thread Ken Hornstein
>> Brilliant idea! I too would use an inverse match logic. Shorter rules, >> easier to apply, probably faster. >> >> G > >I guess that I should interpret that as no, there isn't such an incantation >but since I brought it up then it's my job to write the code so I will when >I get a chance. You

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-05 Thread Jon Steinhart
George Michaelson writes: > > Brilliant idea! I too would use an inverse match logic. Shorter rules, > easier to apply, probably faster. > > G I guess that I should interpret that as no, there isn't such an incantation but since I brought it up then it's my job to write the code so I will when I

Re: Message header formatting

2021-06-05 Thread George Michaelson
Brilliant idea! I too would use an inverse match logic. Shorter rules, easier to apply, probably faster. G On Sun, 6 Jun 2021, 8:17 am Jon Steinhart, wrote: > I've been getting increasingly annoyed at the number of header lines > that fill a screen or two before I can even see message

Message header formatting

2021-06-05 Thread Jon Steinhart
I've been getting increasingly annoyed at the number of header lines that fill a screen or two before I can even see message contents. I keep adding to an already huge ignores line in my mhl.format but new headers seem to be created daily. Is there any incantation for "show only the headers