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Dan LeGate (dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu) wrote:
: 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.

frm from elm.

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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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Dan LeGate (dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu) 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.

: Dan

In pine, when you want to see full headers, it's either h or H (I forget which)
.  You might have to turn this on while you're actually reading a letter, but
then it's on at other times as well (for example, it quotes the full header
when replying).  That's the closest to what you want that pine gets (I think).

later,
chris
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-=> Quoting dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu to All <=-

 dl> feature to do this -  correct me if I'm wrong.  So my question is: does
 dl> anyone know of any  SMALL utilities out there that will list just your
 dl> mail headers (besides  mail and mailx)?  Thanks for any help or
 dl> information you can provide. 

I'd cheat.  

egrep "From:|Subject:" /var/mail/jfesler

There are more elegant solutions than that, but.. ;-).

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Chris (gt1355b@acmey.gatech.edu) wrote:
: Dan LeGate (dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu) wrote:
: : 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.

: In pine, when you want to see full headers, it's either h or H (I forget which)
: .  You might have to turn this on while you're actually reading a letter, but
: then it's on at other times as well (for example, it quotes the full header
: when replying).  That's the closest to what you want that pine gets (I think).

In pine, go to the main menu, then setup|config.
Then, 'w' to search for the word header in the config screen.
When you find 'enable-full-headers-command' check it.
Then, the command is 'h' or 'H', (not case sensitive).

Now if anyone can tell me why the similar command in 'tin' fails for me, 
I'll be happy.  (Ctrl-h resultxs in 'Bad Command' error message.  Maybe it
thinks I'm trying to backspace)

Oh, by the way, I trimmed the huge list of newsgroups that this question was 
originally posted on.

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In article <45bj41$71u@nic-nac.CSU.net> dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) writes:

>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.
>

/usr/ucb/from

>Dan
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On 17 Oct 1995, Danny van der Rijn wrote:

| In article <45bj41$71u@nic-nac.CSU.net> dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) writes:
| 
| >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.
| 
| /usr/ucb/from

    This is fine provided all of your incoming mail is in your INBOX 
(i.e., still in the mail spool).  However, I, like _many_ people, use a 
utility such as procmail (or filter) to pre-sort mail into various 
folders before I ever invoke my mail reader (Pine, in my case).  I have 
been wanting a utility (Perl OK) that would list the headers of mail not 
only remaining in the INBOX but also in pre-sorted folders.

Paul
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Paul O Bartlett (pobart@access.digex.net) wrote:
> On 17 Oct 1995, Danny van der Rijn wrote:

> | In article <45bj41$71u@nic-nac.CSU.net> dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) writes:
> | /usr/ucb/from

>     This is fine provided all of your incoming mail is in your INBOX 
> (i.e., still in the mail spool).  However, I, like _many_ people, use a 
> utility such as procmail (or filter) to pre-sort mail into various 
> folders before I ever invoke my mail reader (Pine, in my case).  I have 
> been wanting a utility (Perl OK) that would list the headers of mail not 
> only remaining in the INBOX but also in pre-sorted folders.


If you use filter then I guess elm is there as well? If thats so then
the elm facility 'frm' is available to you, and you can point it at
alternative folders.

DAMIN ESTES <destes@haywire> writes:
>hey, can you view the gif files in vt100 mode on a PC.
>Also how do you download files with pine to a floppy?

TROLL ALERT!

Sven

Followup-To: alt.fan.trolling

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951018103830.14452D-100000@access2.digex.net> Paul O Bartlett <pobart@access.digex.net> writes:

   Return-Receipt-To: pobart@access.digex.net

   On 17 Oct 1995, Danny van der Rijn wrote:

   | In article <45bj41$71u@nic-nac.CSU.net> dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) writes:
   | 
   | >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.
   | 
   | /usr/ucb/from

       This is fine provided all of your incoming mail is in your INBOX 
   (i.e., still in the mail spool).  However, I, like _many_ people, use a 
   utility such as procmail (or filter) to pre-sort mail into various 
   folders before I ever invoke my mail reader (Pine, in my case).  I have 
   been wanting a utility (Perl OK) that would list the headers of mail not 
   only remaining in the INBOX but also in pre-sorted folders.

   Paul

My personal prefernce is to use 'scan -file filename'.  scan is part
of the MH package.  I believe a crusty version comes w/ AIX, but
you're probably better off building the latest if you don't have it on
your system.  'frm' doesn't have enough flexibility for me, and it
only spits out the From and Subject fields.  I prefer to have more
info, so I alias 'frm' to this:

scan -form scan.spool -file $MAIL

My scan.spool:

%<(cur)+%| %>%<{replied}-%| %>\
%02(mon{date})/%02(mday{date}) \
%02(hour{date}):%02(min{date}) %3(tzone{date})\
%<{date}  %|*%>\
%<(mymbox{from})--> %5(mbox{to}) %|%8(mbox{from})  %>|\
%{subject}%<{body}<<%{body}%>

Daniel
~~~~~~

>>>>> "pb" == Paul O Bartlett <pobart@access.digex.net> writes:

    pb> However, I, like _many_ people, use a utility such as procmail
    pb> (or filter) to pre-sort mail into various folders before I
    pb> ever invoke my mail reader (Pine, in my case).  I have been
    pb> wanting a utility (Perl OK) that would list the headers of
    pb> mail not only remaining in the INBOX but also in pre-sorted
    pb> folders.

if you use procmail take a look at the program 'mailstat' that comes
with it: it shows how you mail was sorted (and if you read the plain
file created by mailstat it also shows the headers).

hth,

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On 20 Oct 1995, Christian Mallwitz wrote:

| brendan@celebrian.otago.ac.nz (Brendan Murray) writes:
| 
| >Paul O Bartlett (pobart@access.digex.net) wrote:
| >> On 17 Oct 1995, Danny van der Rijn wrote:
| 
| >> | [nested stuff omitted]
| 
| what please is procmail?

    Procmail is a mail pre-processing package written and supported by 
Stephen van der Berg (sp?) that runs under Unix and Unix-like systems.  
It can do many things with mail after it is delivered and before it is 
processed by a mail-user agent (pine, elm, whatever).  Many people use 
procmail to sort incoming mail into various separate folders (such as 
mailing list mail each into their own), although procmail will do much 
more than this.  To do much more than simple mail filtering, it seems to 
be assumed that the user knows a lot about Unix.

Paul
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brendan@celebrian.otago.ac.nz (Brendan Murray) writes:

>Paul O Bartlett (pobart@access.digex.net) wrote:
>> On 17 Oct 1995, Danny van der Rijn wrote:

>> | In article <45bj41$71u@nic-nac.CSU.net> dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) writes:
>> | /usr/ucb/from

>>     This is fine provided all of your incoming mail is in your INBOX 
>> (i.e., still in the mail spool).  However, I, like _many_ people, use a 
>> utility such as procmail (or filter) to pre-sort mail into various 
>> folders before I ever invoke my mail reader (Pine, in my case).  I have 
>> been wanting a utility (Perl OK) that would list the headers of mail not 
>> only remaining in the INBOX but also in pre-sorted folders.


what please is procmail?
email welcome

cheers christian

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EIU#114155 in SSB B-12 LAB (ssb4155@ecom.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
: In article <DG91sJ.4np6@austin.ibm.com> jfh@austin.ibm.com (John F. Haugh II) writes:
: >From: jfh@austin.ibm.com (John F. Haugh II)
: >Subject: Re: Getting Mail headers without mail prog???
: >Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 20:19:31 GMT

: >In article <45bj41$71u@nic-nac.CSU.net> dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) writes:
: >>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.

: >Is "awk" out of the question???  This sounds like a trick question ...


Hm, I wrote an alias once, before I found out about the from command.
Here it is:
alias from	'more $MAILPATH | grep From | grep -v "<" | grep -v From: | cut -f2- -d" " ;echo ""; echo "Total Mail and current mailpath:" ; du -k $MAILPATH \!*'


Of course you have to have the environment variable MAILPATH set to whereever 
your mail is. It can easily be improved so it can show how many mails you got.

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yfcon@nic.dataphone.se. (Anders Waller) writes:
>>>>So my question is: does anyone know of any SMALL utilities out there that
>>>>will list just your mail headers (besides mail and mailx)?
>>>Is "awk" out of the question???  This sounds like a trick question ...
>Hm, I wrote an alias once, before I found out about the from command.
>Here it is:
>alias from	'more $MAILPATH | grep From | grep -v "<" | grep -v From: | cut -f2- -d" " ;echo ""; echo "Total Mail and current mailpath:" ; du -k $MAILPATH \!*'

Well, this looks at *all* lines which contain "From".
It should be "^From: ", though.
And even this does not skip "included non-quoted mails".

So - could somebody give a better script?  PERL, anyone?
I'd promise the best script a postcard from Berlin.
How about one of the "wrapped Reichstag"?

I intend to add these scripts the "ELM Pages" (see sig)
so that I can point people to it when the question arises yet again.

Sven

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On 23 Oct 1995, Sven Guckes wrote:

> Well, this looks at *all* lines which contain "From".
> It should be "^From: ", though.
> And even this does not skip "included non-quoted mails".

Correct...Been playing some with egrep, seems the following works, havent 
tested it much yet though...Im sure theres some case whereas it doesnt 
work.

alias from	'more $MAILPATH | egrep "^From: | ^From "


> Sven

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> 
> Cc: yfcon@nic.dataphone.se. (Anders Waller)
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Anders Waller <yfcon@nikson.dataphone.se> wrote:
>
>alias from	'more $MAILPATH | egrep "^From: | ^From "

Aehem, isn't this an useless use of more? egrep "..." $MAILPATH should give the same result.

On many systems, MAILPATH is a colon separated list of files, not just one file. Something
like

OIFS=$IFS
IFS=:
set -- $MAILPATH
IFS=$OIFS
egrep "^From: |^From " $@

is probably better in these cases.

gruss, pat

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Paul O Bartlett (pobart@access.digex.net) wrote:
: On 17 Oct 1995, Danny van der Rijn wrote:

: | In article <45bj41$71u@nic-nac.CSU.net> dlegate@rsa.csuhayward.edu (Dan LeGate) writes:
: | 
: | >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.
: | 
: | /usr/ucb/from

:     This is fine provided all of your incoming mail is in your INBOX 
: (i.e., still in the mail spool).  However, I, like _many_ people, use a 
: utility such as procmail (or filter) to pre-sort mail into various 
: folders before I ever invoke my mail reader (Pine, in my case).  I have 
: been wanting a utility (Perl OK) that would list the headers of mail not 
: only remaining in the INBOX but also in pre-sorted folders.

It's just five awk-commands, see at the end :-)
NOTES
- This is too slow for big files. A C version would do better.
- Your awk will need "toupper()". This is ok e.g. with AIX and Linux,
  but not e.g. with IRIX 4 or SunOS 5.
- Have an eye on the /var/spool/mail path.
- You will have to write the man page yourself ...
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
#!/bin/sh
# @(#) from 0.1		by moritz@math.uni-duesseldorf.de, 1995.11.03

Usage () {
cat <<EOF | more
Usage:	${ThisCmd} [-h] [-s Sender] [[-u] User] [-d Directory] [-f File(s)]

	This command displays the message headings on your system mailbox
	to show you whom mail is from. Flags modify ${ThisCmd}'s behavior.

	-h		Display this help. Do nothing else.
	-s Sender	Display only mails from this sender.
	[-u] User	Use this users system mailbox instead of yours.
	-d Directory	Use this directory instead of /var/spool/mail/.
	-f File(s)	Use this file or these files instead of your system
			mailbox. A dash (-) stands for standard input,
			directories and non-existent or unreadable files
			are ignored silently.

	The location of your system mailbox is stored in the MAILBOX or MAIL
	environment variable or defaults to /var/spool/mail/\$LOGNAME. The
	sender string is matched against the beginning of the 'From:'-field
	ignoring case. (This is what the standard from command does, sorry.)

	You may omit the -u flag if the user parameter is not equal to any
	of the flags. Specifying "User -d Directory" or "-f Directory/User"
	is the same. But the -f flag must be teh last flag if it is present.

EOF
}

ThisCmd="`basename $0`"
Sender=""
MailBox="${MAILBOX:-${MAIL:-/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME}}"

while [  $# -gt 0 ] ; do
   case "$1" in
      -h)
         Usage
         exit 0 ;;
      -s)
         shift
         Sender="$1"
         if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
            shift
         fi ;;
      -u)
         shift
         MailBox="`dirname ${MailBox}`/$1"
         if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
            shift
         fi ;;
      -d)
         shift
         MailBox="$1/`basename ${MailBox}`"
         if [ $# -gt 0 ] ; then
            shift
         fi ;;
      -f)
         shift
         MailBox="$*"
         break ;;
      *)
         MailBox="`dirname ${MailBox}`/$1"
         shift ;;
   esac
done

Files="/dev/null"
for File in ${MailBox} ; do
   if [ "${File}" = "-" -o \( -f "${File}" -a -r "${File}" \) ] ; then
      Files="${Files} ${File}"
   fi
done

cat -sv ${Files} 2>/dev/null | \
awk '
   BEGIN {S="^" toupper(S)}
   !B && $1=="From" {H=1; sub(/^From [^ ]* /, "  "); D=$0}
   H && $1=="From:" && toupper($2)~S {print $0 D}
   NF>0 {B=1}
   NF==0 {B=0; H=0}
' S="${Sender}" 2>/dev/null

wdavis@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Bill Davis) writes:
>|>> And even this does not skip "included non-quoted mails".
>If you are on a system with egrep, then perhaps you can use sed as well.
>You could include the sed command '/^$/,$d' to keep just the header
>based on RFC 822 paragraph 3.1 "The body is ... It is separated from
>the headers by a null line (i.e.,  a line with nothing preceding the CRLF)."
>There are complications with trying to get all this on an alias line, but
>the alias could just call a script or it could be a script called "from".

''And even this does not skip "included non-quoted mails".''
Anyone have a script which takes care of "included" mails?

Sven
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