Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:11:19 -0500 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ot - software to wrap email to be run thru' procmail Message-ID: <20020225171119.GA33548@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20020225095754.GA70924@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020225071724.GA31766@moo.holy.cow> <20020225095754.GA70924@hades.hell.gr>
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in message <20020225095754.GA70924@hades.hell.gr>, wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... > > On 2002-02-25 02:17, parv wrote: > > hi ya, > > > > i am in need of software to wrap email messages to be run thru' > > procmail recipe. > > ... > > does anybody have any other suggestions for a c, perl, rexx, or > > (ba|k|z)sh based program? (i can fiddle w/ all the languages > > mentioned except c.) > > I've used par from the ports, with varying degrees of success and > brokenness in the past. Now I have become addicted to emacs' > filling and vim's gq intelligence. is 'gq' executed w/o your intervention, while using vim as a pager? > Before you go on a wrap-the-world campaign though, you might want > to consider things like MIME-attachments and multipart messages. > In MIME, sometimes the text is `wrapped' by escaping the newline > with an equal sign (`=') character at the end of an otherwise > valid line. ... thanks for the bringing it to my attention as i hadn't thought about it before, even though while searching for my solution, i came across some threads which apparently were discussing how to remove those (=..) characters. do not worry giorgos. right now, i need to wrap messages which come from two-three guys who consistently send unwrapped text only emails on a minolta mailing list. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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