Subject: Re: Edit subject on received mail?

From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 15:50:45 GMT

The guidelines that people just gave should work for Berkeley
format mail folders BUT there are many folder formats that include
information about the size of each message.  If your folder is in
one of these formats then editing the subject will trash the folder
(unless your new subject happens to be the same size as the old
subject).  Note that the PC-Pine folder format includes info on
message size. 

Good luck,
Nancy

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 5 May 1997 12:55:38 GMT

[email-masked] (Tony Gonzalez):
> Okay, I use a good ascii text editor vim (vi)...
> how would I go about editing mail in the inbox?  

	$EDITOR $MAIL

On my system here this wille expand to

	vim /var/spool/mail/guckes

If your system writes the mailbox with Content-Length
then you can be quite in trouble as editing will almost
certainly change the length of the messages.

Therefore you should delete the lines before calling your mailer on this folder:

	:g/^Content-Length: /d

But there are even more ways to screw it up,
so don't do it unless you know what you do!
You have been warned!  ;-)

Sven