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Author: Arnt Karlsen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Formail for managing digests
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:48:13 +0100, Stephane wrote in message
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> > .nope, dunno those .eml files, only tried this with digests, and you
> > wanna do one at the time even in scripts to avoid messing up your
> > email archive with malformed messages lurking in your digests.
>
> DIGEST="Dng Digest, Vol 62, Issue 31.eml" ; cat "$DIGEST" |formail -ds
> or
> DIGEST="Dng Digest, Vol 62, Issue 31.eml" ; cat "$DIGEST" |formail +1
> -ds
>
> don't work.


..formail needs a proper procmail setup to work properly.

>
> > ..and still quite often the appropriate way to deal with it. ;o)
>
> This is a part of free computing spirit nowadays that annoys me.
>
> > ..you manage your own box? Install procmail there,
>
> What do you call "box"? I'm at work in my university, using its
> infrastructure.


..excellent, talk to your support staff, they are paid handsomely
precisely to help/support you.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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