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Re: Header stripper

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From: Neil Rickert
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 12:36
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In article <1991Apr2.063227.25582@engin.umich.edu> mjo@ais.org writes:
>I am looking for a program/script that strips extraneous mail header
>stuff from my mbox...  I generally don't need to see the 20 or so
>machines that my mail goes through to get to me.  Does anyone have any
>suggestions?  I will post to comp.mail.headers if I receive a large
>body of mail on the subject.

 What you really need is a mail program with a user interface which does not
display these lines.  There is a good chance you already have one.  Most
halfway decent mail programs have a setup file where you can ask it to hide
certain headers, so you don't see them.

 Removing and discarding the 'Received:' headers is usually a bad idea, as you
will discover as soon as you run into a message with a bad reply address and
need to look at those headers to try to construct a valid reply address.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940
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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Header stripper
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.123656.24499@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 12:36:56 GMT
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