Re: creative use of pipes
Lucio Chiappetti <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 [email protected] wrote: > maybe you should use some mail filtering program, i.e. procmail to > filter incoming emails. For procmail, create ~/.procmailrc (chmod 600) > with this content to filter message: I know about procmail and have a set of extensive procmail rules since ages : http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/Procmail/ > This will filter message through grep, which prints only lines, which do > not begin with ">" and space. but I do not want to remove all quoted lines. I want to keep messages which do proper quoting (snip uninteresting part and keep only those to which they reply) and clean those who have the entire original message quoted at the end. As I said, I won't trust procmail (and specially a rule written by me) to do this irreversible change correctly, also procmail is not very good in processing a message in non-sequential way. > I think, it's better to keep the original message to know, on what > message the one answered, without long time searching the original > message. If the above statement means not to trust an irreversible change at delivery time, I agree. That's why a was looking for a pine solution at save time. I look a message, find it has been quoted badly, and save-with-cleanup. If instead you mean it's a good idea to quote the entire message you are replying to in any reply, I regard that as an extremely bad idea. Searching the original message by subject or content is extremely easy in pine with its search facility ! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lucio Chiappetti - INAF/IASF - via Bassini 15 - I-20133 Milano (Italy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- L'Italia ripudia la guerra [...] come Italy repudiates war {...] as a mezzo di risoluzione delle controversie way of resolution of international internazionali controversies [Art. 11 Constitution of the Italian Republic] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more info : http://www.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/personal.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Pine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/pine-info