On Mon, 18 Jul 2011, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/18/2011 08:30 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 15:28 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> >>> I couldn't get it to work with exchange. >>> I'm told Microsoft is holding up IMAP requests. >>> I did get it to work with cableone. >>> The relevant account is a thin wrapper on gmail. >>> I have the mail I want, sort of. >>> I had to hit forward rather a lot. >>> So all my messages are wrapped in forwarding boilerplate. >>> Is there a convenient way I can unwrap them? >> >> There's a form of forwarding usually denoted "redirect". If you can set >> the forwarding type in the forwarding account to redirect, the received >> message will look like the original (I think). I'm pretty sure Exchange >> is capable of this. >> > You could try using fetchmail to get the messages. I believe Gmail > supports POP3. I know it supports IMAP.
I forwarded the 300+ messages to a gmail account one at a time. I got them on my hard drive using fetchmail. > For the mail you have, you could probably use sed to remove the > forwarding "boiler plate". Exactly how you will want to do it > depends on if the messages are in one big file, or separate files. For a one-off, I think I'd use python before sed for something especially complicated. The problem is I don't understand the syntax well enough to know what to do. When I vim the mbox, I often see what appeared to me to be random bits of base-64. Now I think I have a clue. Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 means that the entire forwarded message text is in base-64 If I remove that line and decode the following base-64, I should at least get a better look at what else I need to undo. I was rather hoping that I was not the first person that wanted to do this and that there was a canned solution somewhere. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
