Subject: Re: Removing Attachments?

From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:52:59 +0100

On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Jason Mount wrote:

> I would like to archive all my correspondance, but I often send and
> recieve large binary files.  I would like to be able to remove the
> attachments from my messages before I archive them.

    Export the message.  Only the text parts of the message which Pine
displays will appear in the exported file.  If you are using Pine's
non-IMAP default, or an Elm-compatible variant of that, for your saved
message folders, Export the messages to something like
Mail/archive  or
mail/archive   (replace archive with the name of your choice)

    If you have need for full headers, enable them with ``h'' before you
Export the message.  Any attachments will be noted in the exported
message, but will not be there.

    For an IMAP configuration where you do not see your saved mail folders
directly, you will have to add a folder collection which points to the
local file where you have exported all the messages to your configuration.

    When you Export, you'll no doubt want to Append and not Overwrite.
But I think you'd figure that out after your first dozen or so mistakes
;-)

Barry Bouwsma  <[email-masked]>
Radio Praha, Český Rozhlas 7

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From: Jason Mount <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 20:31:10 GMT

Hi,
I would like to archive all my correspondance, but I often send and
recieve large binary files.  I would like to be able to remove the
attachments from my messages before I archive them.
I have searched through the FAQ's for information reguarding a way to
remove attachments, but I haven't found one yet.  I have been manualy
deleting the encoded attachments and changing the content type in the
header, but this is *very* slow.  Can any one help me?

                        Thank you,
                                Jason

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