On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 02:29:36PM -0600, Timothy Ball wrote:
> Anyone got a way to reformat mail so that it's <80 cols? I figured this
> was a common problem and someone would have a pre-made solution.
Well, you can probably use command line tools for this..
for instance, cat message | fold -sw 60
To strip off any linefeeds (0x0A), just add this into the equation:
cat message | tr '\n' ' ' | fold -sw 60
That switches linefeeds for spaces.. It could [and probably will] garble
your lines :)
See the manpages for more.
Caveat: this may screw up long header lines (see the In-Reply-To header in
this message for instance.)
Solution: Put it in a procmail filter. Both less work and more efficient.
First, you create a file to use as a filter.
~/foofilter:
:0 fhw
| fold -sw 60
Then you either
cat /var/spool/mail/foouser | procmail -m ~/foofilter
(might want to copy your mailbox to some other file so you won't get
2 copies of every mail.)
Now just see your Mail system's manual for information on how you can
implement this, I believe you can simple ln -s ~/foofilter ~/.procmailrc
for most mailers like Sendmail..
Regards, candy
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