[Mimedefang] ENTIRE_MESSAGE not a Mailbox (mbox) file

[SRAR Mail Administrator]

On Mar 4, 2004, at 7:11 AM, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>
>> Is there a quick trick (probably something crazy with formail) that 
>> you can
>> run on ENTIRE_MESSAGE to turn it into an mbox with the correct first 
>> line so
>> I can view it with mutt and determine whether to bounce it?
>
> This shell one-liner will do it, though the date obviously won't match
> the date in the message.  The date also won't be in RFC 822 format, but
> most mail clients shouldn't barf on that.  If they do, see "man date" 
> and
> come up with the proper formatting string...
>
> (echo "From `cat SENDER | tr -d '<>'` `date '+%c'`"; cat 
> ENTIRE_MESSAGE) > message.mbox

`date +%d%m%y" "%H:%m%S`  should[0] create RFC 822 compatible date + 
time

[0] It does on Darwin 7.2.0 - Mac OS X 10.3.2 (7D24)


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