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Re: Header stripper

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From: Mike O'Connor
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1991 15:41
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In article <1991Apr2.123656.24499@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:

: 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.

Sorry...  poor choice of words in my initial post.  I not only don't
want to SEE the headers, but I also don't want to KEEP the headers.  I
use elm, and find that I am making large folders that are half
headers!  I would like some automagic way of stripping those headers.  

: 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.

In most cases, I will already know that the address involved is
Reply-To:-able.  I just don't want 60 lines of header per message, and
am wondering if there's a simple way to do that.  (Editing folders by
hand is NOT simple.)

Thanks for your reply.






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Mike O'Connor <mjo@ais.org>
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