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Article #25Re: Getting Mail headers without mail prog???
From: Dana French
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 00:00
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dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) wrote:
>Okay, our sysadmin has cut off rights to /usr/bin/mail and /usr/bin/mailx
>and has allowed us only to use Pine, which I absolutely love, but I also
>like to use mail (or mailx) to list my mail headers (mail -H). To my
>knowledge, pine doesn't have a simple command-line feature to do this -
>correct me if I'm wrong. So my question is: does anyone know of any
>SMALL utilities out there that will list just your mail headers (besides
>mail and mailx)? Thanks for any help or information you can provide.
If all you want is a list of the subject lines from your mail file, do
the following:
grep -i "^subject:" /usr/spool/mail/${LOGNAME}
You may need to replace "/usr/spool/mail" with your systems location of
the mail files.
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Dana French E-Mail: dfrench@aig.com
Applied Intelligence Group Phone: (405) 341-7700
501 East 15th Street, Suite 202 Fax: (405) 341-8898
Edmond, OK 73013
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