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paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
>mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor) writes:

>>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.  

>Some time back I wrote the thdr filter to do just that for mail messages
>inbound to notesfiles.  It uses the regexp package (every program should
>be a learning experience).  Now for the incantation:

Regexp? Ick! here's something I hacked together a while back that should
do what he asked for. Also available via anonymous ftp from
aupair.cs.athabascau.ca:mail/striphdrs.c.

/*
 * Clean up headers in mail destined for a mailing list. I usually invoke
 * this from the smail alias file as follows:
 *
 * foo:	"|/usr/local/smail/striphdrs|/usr/local/bin/smail -oi -q -f foo-request foo-redist"
 *
 * Written January 1991 (or there abouts) by Lyndon Nerenberg.
 * This program is in the public domain.
 *
 * --lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca
 */

#ifndef lint
static char RCSid[] = "$Id: striphdrs.c,v 1.6 91/04/03 10:05:09 lyndon Rel $";
#endif /* ! lint */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <malloc.h>

/*
 * Define MAILLIST if you want a "Precedence: bulk" header to be automatically
 * included in every message (useful for mailing list traffic).
 */

#define MAILLIST

#ifdef sun
extern void exit();
#endif /* sun */

#define INBUFSIZE 4096		/* Size of input buffer. Lines longer than */
				/* this will be truncated. */
#define	TRUE	1
#define FALSE	0

static char *hdr_del[] = {	/* NULL terminated list of hdrs to delete */
  "Return-Path:",
  "Received:",
  "Errors-To:",
  "Sender:",
  "Precedence:",
  NULL };

main(argc, argv)
  int argc; char *argv[];
{
  
  char *inbuf;			/* Input buffer */
  char **c;			/* Temporary pointer */
  int  in_headers = TRUE;	/* Set to 0 when last header encountered */
  int  deleting = FALSE;	/* Set to 1 if actively deleting header */
  
  inbuf = (char *) malloc((unsigned) INBUFSIZE);
  if (inbuf == NULL) {
    (void) fprintf(stderr, "%s: malloc(INBUFSIZE) failed!\n", argv[0]);
    exit(1);
  }
  
  while ((fgets(inbuf, INBUFSIZE, stdin)) != NULL) {
    
    if (in_headers) {
      
      if (*inbuf == '\n') {
	in_headers = FALSE;	/* Header/body seperator found */
#ifdef MAILLIST
	(void) fputs("Precedence: bulk\n\n", stdout);
#else /* ! MAILLIST */
	(void) fputs("\n\n", stdout);
#endif /* ! MAILLIST */
	continue;
      }

      if (deleting && ((*inbuf == ' ') || (*inbuf == '\t')))
	continue;		/* Skip any continuation lines */
      else
	deleting = FALSE;
      
      /* See if this is a bogus header */
      for (c = hdr_del; *c != NULL; c++)
	if (strncasecmp(inbuf, *c, strlen(*c)) == 0)
	  deleting = TRUE;

      if (!deleting)
	(void) fputs(inbuf, stdout);
    }
    else
      (void) fputs(inbuf, stdout);
  }
  exit(0);
/*NOTREACHED*/
}

-- 
    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
           atha!cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca
                    Packet: ve6bbm@ve6bbm.ab.can.noam
      The only thing open about OSF is their mouth.  --Chuck Musciano