On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:29:57PM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > > How do I save a message to a file (like the [E]xport command in pine) > > such that all text attachments are included, as well as the headers of > > the message? > > If your $mbox_type is set to mbox, then a simple C (copy-message) will > do what you want. Otherwise you will need to create a macro like such: > macro E index "<pipe-message>cat > " > and just append the filename you want to the end of the command.
It should be "macro index E", not "macro E index", BTW. (I'm using Maildir, not mbox.) That's a bit better than pressing "e" and using the vi ":w" command to save the message. It's still not as good as pine's [E]xport command, though. It will write out all the uninteresting headers of the message (Return-Path, Delivered-To, Received, Message-ID, etc.) rather than only the ones I've defined in the "my_hdr" configuration option. When I export a message, I'm doing it for the purpose of printing it or including it in a document I'm writing so I wouldn't want all those extra headers. I don't suppose there's a command like <pipe-message>, except that it filters headers (the header filtering code is already available in the pager, after all)? Or would I have to write an external header filtering program and then do something like: macro index E "<pipe-message> perl filter_header.pl > " which isn't exactly the optimal solution, since an external program does not have ready access to my configuration file my_hdr settings, but would work I suppose.
