Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 11:57:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ot - software to wrap email to be run thru' procmail Message-ID: <20020225095754.GA70924@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020225071724.GA31766@moo.holy.cow> References: <20020225071724.GA31766@moo.holy.cow>
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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.
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.
What will happen if you wrap with par(1) the following paragraph from a
MIME-encoded multipart message?
This is a very long line of text that will certainly have =
to be wrapped, since the length is too large to fit in a =
terminal window, even if you use the 132x25 text mode of the =
FreeBSD syscons console.
When mailers decode this MIME part and wrap the text, they also remove the
equal signs, before wrapping. I don't know of an easy way to do this with
par. Note that I'm not saying it's impossible. I just don't know if it
can be done.
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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