From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 9: 9:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187D237B405 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:09:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp161.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.97] helo=moo.holy.cow) by avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16fOcf-0005EN-00; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 09:09:09 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D7BE250BA9; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:11:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 12:11:19 -0500 From: parv To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: f-q Subject: Re: ot - software to wrap email to be run thru' procmail Message-ID: <20020225171119.GA33548@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Giorgos Keramidas , f-q References: <20020225071724.GA31766@moo.holy.cow> <20020225095754.GA70924@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020225095754.GA70924@hades.hell.gr> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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