Subject: 3.95: Still no message editing?

From: Lynda Milne <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 09:53:23 -0400

Wah!
I eagerly read through (almost) every word of the 3.95 release notes,
and while I'm very happy with the large number of helpful updates,
the one I've wanted so much for so long still isn't there!

In UNIX mail and mailx, it is possible to engage an editor to edit
RECEIVED messages.  This is very helpful for cutting down on the
volume of saved messages.  Unwanted lines and lines full of headers
can be quickly deleted, along with abundant, redundant inclusions of
quoted messages.  You read, you edit, you save.  Bingo: megabytes
of unwanted fat removed.

Is this enhancement ever coming to the otherwise-now-perfect-PINE?
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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 18 Aug 1996 16:49:41 GMT

[email-masked] (Lynda Milne):
> In UNIX mail and mailx, it is possible to engage an editor to edit RECEIVED
> messages.  This is very helpful for cutting down on the volume of saved
> messages.  Unwanted lines and lines full of headers can be quickly deleted,
> along with abundant, redundant inclusions of quoted messages.
> You read, you edit, you save.  Bingo: megabytes of unwanted fat removed.

Solution While-U-Wait:
Weed away those unwanted header lines from mail folders with Fefe's weed script:

	http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/sed/#weedout

Usage:

	(1) Save the script text to file "weedout.sed" and then
	(2) Apply with "sed -f weedout.sed foldername"

Credit goes to the author : Felix von Leitner [email-masked]

I assume the script can somehow be worked in to PINE - anyone?

Sven

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From: "Steven King" <[email-masked]>
Date: 21 Aug 1996 13:17:38 GMT

Lynda Milne  <[email-masked]> wrote:

>This is a nice little script, and it does the trick for the headers,
>saving me (on a quick test of about 20 files) around 20% disk space
>per file.  THANKS!

Another suggestion for the Pine developers might be to have Pine support
compressed (or gzip'd) mail folders.

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From: [email-masked] (Brian J. Coan)
Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:36:18 -0700

> compressed (or gzip'd) mail folders.

we've hacked our version of pine here (3.91) to do this.
1)  going into a folder that's been gzip'd unzips it first.
2)  saving into a folder that's gzip'd appends gzip fashion
3)  you can specify either "foldername" or "foldername.z" and
    if one of those exists, or neither exists, it does the right thing.
    if both exist, it complains.

happy to share this with the pine developers if they want it.

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From: Johan Holmberg <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Aug 1996 18:31:52 +0200

> quoted messages.  You read, you edit, you save.  Bingo: megabytes

I would also like such a feature very much.
Especially an ability to remove attachments from received messages.
I often have messages I want to keep for the text in the message,
but "have to" delete because it contains a huge attachment that I'm not
interested in any more.

/johan holmberg

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