Date: 18 Mar 2005 16:33:56 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: script to save a particular mail file?? Message-ID: <44ekec7i63.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20050317220638.GA54657@thought.org> References: <20050317220638.GA54657@thought.org>
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Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> writes: > Just thought I'd ask the list if anyone has a script to > read /var/mail/<login> and grab a single file. I just > sub'd to a mailing list that is produced only in HTML. > I'd like to save it to /tmp, strip it, and have it ready > for lynx or links. > > If anyone onlist has already done this, it would save me > from reinventing *this* wheel. The first thing that occurs to me is using formail (part of procmail) and maybe metamail if formail can't extract the HTML...
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