Re: Extract last email from an email file (mbox format)
Xu Wang <[email protected]> Fri, 27 May 2016 15:45:25 -0400
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On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Zhiliang Hu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2016, Xu Wang wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 21:03:15 -0400 >> From: Xu Wang <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Extract last email from an email file (mbox format) >> >> Hello, this is.... >> From: will this be matched? >>> >>> From how about this one? >> >> ---------------------------------end last message >> >> So this is why I am not sure matching regex with "^From " is safe. It >> will also match in the body. > > > As a tradition, when a mail is saved into mbox format, any leading "From" > line is prefixed with ">" as in your example. I see, so mutt must not be using mbox format then because it does not do that. > You could use 'H' or 'h' flag in your little rc file to check headers only. What would be the full contents of little rc in this case? Kind regards, Xu