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From: naras@cda.mrs.umn.edu (B. Narasimhan)
Subject: Re: How can one get a Bcc in Xmh. (Solved!)
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:23:57 GMT

I managed to find a solution after some experimentation, so there
is no need to respond.
Thanks anyway.

-- 
B. Narasimhan                             naras@cda.mrs.umn.edu
Division of Science and Math.
The University of Minnesota at Morris
Morris, MN 56267
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Subject: Re: Using ReplyInsertFilter
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 07:13:42 GMT

In article <BtLvs7.EKv.2@cs.cmu.edu>, bobski+@CS.CMU.EDU (Robert Olszewski) writes:
|> I'm trying to set up XMH so that I can use the INSERT button
|> in the reply window to place a copy of the original message in
|> the body of the new message with ">" in front of all the lines.
|> I currently have it set up so that by selecting REPLY, the original
|> message is *always* copied to the new one.  I'd like to be able to
|> choose whether or not to do this when replying, hence the change.
|> 
|> Just to see if I could get it to work, I tried to set the switch
|> from the command line as follows:
|> 
|>   xmh -xrm '*ReplyInsertFilter: /usr/misc/.mh/lib/mhl -form filter'
|> 
|> That didn't work.  I also tried to set the associated value in my .Xdefaults
|> file, but that did not work either.  
|> 
|> Yes, I did read the FAQ post, but that did not help.
|> 
|> Suggestions?

I can't explain why your filter doesn't work but here is mine:

Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter:          sed -e '1,/^ *$/d' -e 's/^/|> /'

The first part deletes all lines till the first blank one, which has so
far only deleted headers, and then lines have "|> " prepended.

-- 

Michael Salmon

#include	<standard.disclaimer>
#include	<witty.saying>
#include	<fancy.pseudo.graphics>

Ericsson Telecom AB
Stockholm
From: mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us (Marshall Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Upgrade #5 available
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:28:16 GMT
Reply-To: mh-users@ics.uci.edu
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

If you retrieved them via the mail-server, the first thing you do is to
reassemble the original message:

	% mhn -store 1-10

(where 1-10 is the messages you got back).  Then you can extract the
compressed tar image:

	% mhn -store last

And finally you can install it, e.g.,
	
	% cd /usr/src/mh-6.7.2
	% uncompress < /tmp/11.tar.Z | tar xvpf -

All of this is covered in the mhn manual page.

/mtr
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: liblit@cs.psu.edu (Benjamin R. Liblit)
Subject: rcvtty errors
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:15:19 GMT

I'm sure this must be an FAQ, but I'm stumped.  I'm starting to
experiment with slocal.  For now, I'm just dumping all incoming mail
into rcvtty, using .maildelivery as:

*	*	|	?	/depot/mh/lib/rcvtty

However, slocal is unable to pipe messages into rcvtty properly:

   ~% /depot/mh/lib/slocal -verbose < sample-note
           delivering to pipe "/depot/mh/lib/rcvtty",
   loses: Exit 1
   (trying normal delivery)
           delivering to file "/usr/spool/mail/liblit" (uucp style), done.

I am able to invoke rcvtty directly with no problems.  When slocal
tries, though, it falls on its head.  Any ideas?

version: MH 6.7.2 #3[UCI] (colossus) of Fri Apr 3 09:36:24 EST 1992
options: [BIND] [BPOP] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DBM] [DUMB] [MHE]
         [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [NNTP] [RPATHS] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [SENDMTS]
         [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [ZMAILER]
--
			Ben Liblit
			liblit @ cs.psu.edu -- brl102 @ psuvm.psu.edu
			"Fais que tes reves soient plus longs que la nuit."
From: Michael.Salmon@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Upgrade #5 available
Date: 31 Aug 92 09:09:08 GMT
Reply-To: Michael.Salmon@eos.ericsson.se
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

|> If you retrieved them via the mail-server, the first thing you do is to
|> reassemble the original message:
|> 
|> 	% mhn -store 1-10
|> 
|> (where 1-10 is the messages you got back).  Then you can extract the
|> compressed tar image:
|> 
|> 	% mhn -store last
|> 
|> And finally you can install it, e.g.,
|> 	
|> 	% cd /usr/src/mh-6.7.2
|> 	% uncompress < /tmp/11.tar.Z | tar xvpf -
|> 
|> All of this is covered in the mhn manual page.
|> 
|> /mtr

I have some small problems still, we were unable to fetch mh-mime from
ftp.ics.uci.edu but we were able to fetch it from nic.funet.fi, however it
was dated Feb 26. I had no problem extracting and compiling that version
and with it I was able to extract the latest version however when I tried
to compile that I found that several files were missing, most noticably
the fmtdump related files. I notice that you mention mh 6.7.2 while I am
using 6.7.1. Is this update for 6.7.2 or have I screwed up?

/Michael
From: kelem@castor.xilinx.com (Steve Kelem)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Upgrade #5 available
Date: 27 Aug 92 23:11:50 GMT
Reply-To: kelem@xilinx.com
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

> All of this is covered in the mhn manual page.

Is this an on-line manual page?  We've installed the man pages, but
don't see that one.  We're running 6.7.

Thanks,
/7\'7  Steve Kelem	(408)879-5347		kelem@xilinx.com
\\ `   Xilinx					FAX: (408)559-7114
//     2100 Logic Drive
\\/.\  San Jose, California 95124
From: katan@CGRSOLV.UWATERLOO.CA (Kim A Tan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: vmail under IBM RISC AIX 3.2 operating system (Unix based)
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:29:48 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet



Hi, 

I am trying to compile VMAIL for MH under our IBM RISC 6000 running AIX 3.2.
However, I run into some problem that I cannot solve (since I am not a `c' 
user). 

Has anyone out there compiled VMAIL for IBM RISC 6000? If so, please let me
know what do I have to modify in order to get VMAIL to run under AIX 3.2 for
MH 6.6.

Thanks in advance.

--Kim
----
Kim A. Tan                               Internet: katan@cgrsolv.UWaterloo.ca
Waterloo Centre for Groundwater Research           katan@cgrpc.UWaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo                      Phone: (519) 885-1211 x5207
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1                     FAX: (519) 888-4654
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Subject: MH development activity?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 08:15:18 GMT
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI

Is MH still in active development?  The reason I ask, you see, is that
when I recently compiled MH on my SVR4 system, I noticed a great deal
of problems with MH and ANSI C systems.   I had to make more
modifications to the code than I'm accustomed to making to compile
things on this system.  Now, if the MH maintainers are going to
release another version of MH, I'd be happy to send my changes to them
(if they haven't already got a similar set).  But from what I've seen,
it looks like most of MH was written a long time ago and hasn't been
touched since.  (I get much the same impression when looking at the
MMDF source code, but that's another issue.)  And so if the
maintainers aren't planning on updating MH, then I won't bother
delocalizing my changes and sending them off, since they'll just fall
into the bit bucket or be ignored.

So, is MH still being maintained?  Is a new release planned anytime
soon?  And, if such a new release is being planned, could one of the
maintainers contact me by e-mail and let me know if SVR4 patches for
MH are wanted?

-- 
Marc Unangst                | Real men don't make backups.  Real men never
mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | accidentally delete files that they're going
                            | to need later.
From: eo@ansa.co.uk (Ed Oskiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Problem with refile -file ...
Date: 4 Sep 92 13:55:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


I said:

>I am trying to move a draft mailnote from /tmp to my private drafts directory
>and it's not working properly. Typing the following in a shell replicates the
>problem:
>
># ensure we have a properly formed blank mailnote
>comp -file /tmp/foo -nowhatnowproc -nodraftfolder
>refile -file /tmp/foo +drafts
>
>The refile succeeds (a new file is created in drafts), but rm fails with:
>
>usage: rm [-rif] file ...

I omitted to mention that my .mh_profile contained:

rmmproc:	/bin/rm

Jerry Peek suggested that the rmmproc might be a problem, and as usual he was
right. If I comment out this line, then the refile works. If I leave it
commented out and try:

refile -file /tmp/foo -rmmproc /bin/rm +drafts

I get the original failure symptoms. Bug in refile I think.

For the benefit of bug-mh:

My machine is a Sparcstation 1 running SunOS Release 4.1.1, my mh configuration
details are:

version: MH 6.7.2 #9[UCI] (caligula) of Tue Apr 14 14:44:45 BST 1992
options: [ATHENA] [ATTVIBUG] [ATZ] [BIND] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DUMB]
         [FOLDPROT='"0700"'] [ISI] [MHE] [MHRC] [MORE='"/usr/ucb/more"']
         [MSGPROT='"0600"'] [OVERHEAD] [RPATHS] [SBACKUP='"#"']
         [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [SUN40] [SUN41] [TYPESIG='void'] [TZNAME] [UK]
         [WHATNOW]

Cheers,

Ed Oskiewicz

email:	eo@ansa.co.uk (mcsun!uknet!ansa!eo)	ANSA,
tel:	+44 223 323 010				Poseidon House,
fax:	+44 223 359 779				Castle Park,
						Cambridge CB3 0RD, UK
From: bobski+@CS.CMU.EDU (Robert Olszewski)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: ReplyInsertFilter
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:25:28 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University


No, no, no.  The filter WORKS fine since reply can use it with no problems.

FYI, the correct command is:

  xmh -xrm 'Xmh.ReplyInsertFilter: /usr/misc/.mh/lib/mhl -form filter'
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From: mwiz@mpd.tandem.com (Marc Wiz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Frequency of NFS lock problems w/ NFS mounted mail spool
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:41:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Organization: Do you really want to know?

In article <vanepp.715392389@sfu.ca> vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) writes:
>As I recall (it has been about a year since I was through this) Elm uses flock()not lockf(), so NFS locking isn't a problem (nor possible for that matter since
>flock() won't work on an NFS file), what does the locking is the .lock file that

This is true on SunOS but not AIX v3.  AIX v3 does support flock over NFS.

Marc


-- 
Marc Wiz			Yes that really is my last name.
MaBell:				(512)244-8780
Internet:			mwiz@mpd.tandem.com
The views expressed are my own.  Mine all mine!
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
From: a2824as@cd1.lrz-muenchen.de (Michael Storz)
Subject: Re: return receipt
Reply-To: Michael.Storz@lrz.lrz-muenchen.dbp.de
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum Muenchen, Germany
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:22:54 GMT

In article <17mp7hINN1kn@nigel.msen.com>, emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
|> return receipt requested seems like a simple application for MIME.  add a
|> body part with appropriate semantics and put support in your MUA to
|> generate and receive things proper.  then haggle over it at IETF meetings
|> over fine wines and good company.
 
I wouldn't suggest to do that. This would clearly mix distinct things. 
Return-Receipt has to do with the MUA and MUA things are done in the header
of a mail. MIME has to do with mail bodies, that means with the information
which is transported by mail. Therefore return-receipt should NEVER generate
a new body part (even if it is possible).

-- 

Michael Storz
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From: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: What is my x.400 e-mail address?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:32:15 EST
Organization: DAVID A. ROTH MUSIC
Reply-To: david@roth-music.com (David A. Roth)
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.5v4



Assuming someone can only send x.400 messages, what would my x.400
e-mail address be given my internet address is david@roth-music.com
(expanded as david@david.roth-music.com ).

Thanks in advance!

David
david@roth-music.com
From: michaell@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael A. Lowry)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: How can I exchange email with someone in Bordeaux, France?
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:07:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

I have a good friend named Anne, who attends school in Bordeaux. I
have been trying to find any Internet hosts in Bordeaux, hoping that
she could get an account. She goes to INSEEC, and I am not sure if it
has any hosts on the Internet.

I did some digging around in an old network directory file on
emx.utexas.edu, and found the following information with a grep
search:
       Interuniversitaire  de  Calcul  de  Bordeaux,  France,  Universite  de
       Bordeaux I, 351 Cours  de  la  Liberation,  F-33405  Talence;  Jacques
       Radioelectricite de Bordeaux, 351, cours  de  la  Liberation,  F-33405
       Bordeaux,  France,  Centre  Hospitalier  Regional  de Bordeaux, Centre
       Observatoire  de  Bordeaux,  France,  Observatoire de l'Universite, de
       Bordeaux I, BP 21, F-33270 Floirac; JP  Busset,  BUSSET@FROBOR51,  +33
       Programmation,  Bordeaux,  France,  GRECO  de  Programmation  du CNRS,
       Universite de Bordeaux I, 351 Cours de la Liberation, F-33405 Talence;
    Centre Interuniversitaire de Calcul de Bordeaux;
    CRIH de Bordeaux;
    Observatoire de Bordeaux;

I sent a printout of the above list to Anne; perhaps she can do more to
find Internet hosts since she actually is IN Bordeaux.

I also searched through a WAIS database using gopher-
(7.  Other Gopher and Information Servers
 	7.  WAIS Based Information
 		3.  Everything
 			130. domain-organizations.src <?>)
This returned what appear to be names of hosts in bordeaux:

bordeaux.inra.fr
greco-prog.fr

I have sent mail to "postmaster" at both of these sites, but have
received no reply yet.

Does anyone know of any hosts in Bordeaux? Also, is there anything
else I could do (save going to Bordeaux) to find hosts in Bordeaux
where Anne could get an account?

Thanks in advance for ANY help.

*  Michael A. Lowry		\	The University of Texas at Austin  *
*   michaell@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu	 \	 Austin, Texas, U.S.A.		   *
From: mucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Fred Seaton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Mail to France or mini-tel
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:54:50 GMT
Organization: Educational Computing Network

Hello Net:

I have a faculty at our university who is going to France for a year and
is wanting to be able to communicate with the states somehow.

She says that she'll have access to the "Mini-Tel" devices that are
common in homes in France (She'll be in Paris), and was wondering if it
is possible to communicate with BITNET and Internet users from that
device.

And, if it is possible, does anyone know how expensive it is to do that?

Otherwise, she will be affiliated with la Sorbonne Nouvelle, a
university in Paris.  Does anyone know if that University is connected
to the Internet in some way?

As I am not a regular reader of this list, I would appreciate it if you
would respond directly to me.  If anoyone is interested, I will be happy
to summarize the responses to the list.

Thanks in advance... fred
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred Seaton                         Internet:  F-Seaton@bgu.edu
Academic Computing                  Bitnet:    mucm000@ecnuxa.bitnet
Western Illinois University         Applelink: u1384@applelink.apple.com
126 Stipes Hall                     AT&Tnet:   309.298.1681
Macomb, IL  61455
From: thomas@aic.co.jp (Thomas Johannsen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Software to process mbox? (Summary)
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:35:23 GMT
	<23092@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
Organization: Advanced Intelligent Communication Systems Lab.,Sendai,Japan
In-reply-to: root@lyra.scg.hac.com's message of 31 Aug 92 23:02:03 GMT

In article <23092@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> root@lyra.scg.hac.com (Dave Fisher) writes:

 > The short answer is that to do this one needs procmail, and/or formail.

Where can I get these programs? I couldn't find them in our UNIX file archive.

Sorry if this is a FAQ ;-)

Thomas

 > Thanks again to both.               Dave Fisher  fisher@lyra.hac.com
From: lawson@netsun.mdc.com (Jim Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: What is SITA and can Internet talk to it ?
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:01:59 GMT
Reply-To: Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
Organization: MDSSC-SSD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

A friend of mine in Irlenad told mee he is on the SITA e-mail network.

Has anyone heard of that network ? Can we connect to it ?

Thanks

--
Jim Lawson	Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
		Alt:	Lawson@netsun.mdc.com or Lawson@mdcbbs.com

Opinions/Comments expressed here are my own and no one elses !!
From: root@lyra.scg.hac.com (Dave Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Software to process mbox?
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:45:30 GMT
Reply-To: fisher@lyra.hac.com (Dave Fisher)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., Carlsbad, CA


Anybody know of some software which will process an existing "mbox" file
and separate the mail according to who sent it, subject, etc. ?

Please e-mail replies.

Dave Fisher  fisher@lyra.hac.com
From: robin@ruc.dk (Robin Cheesman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Mail to Vietnam
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:44:15 GMT
Organization: Roskilde Universitetscenter, Danmark

Two of my students are to spend half a year in Vietnam, doing field work. 
We are looking for solutions to keeping in touch. Email through some UUCP
node would be great. Does anyone know anything relevant?

 +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
 | Robin Cheesman                                Communication Studies |
 | Roskilde University  *  PO Box 260  *  DK-4000 Roskilde  *  Denmark |
 | Phone: +45 46757711    Fax: +45 46755313    Internet:  robin@ruc.dk |
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From: billd@informix.com (William Daul)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Looking for Internet site to FTP "tin" mailer
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:14:56 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: billd@cheetah

Someone I work with mentioned a mailer called "tin"(?)
Is it avaiable off the net somewhere?  Where?  In 50 words
or less, what makes it unique?

Thanks,  --Bill
-- 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
 William Daul             Advanced Support      INFORMIX SOFTWARE INC.
 4100 Bohannon Dr.        (415) 926-6488 - wk
 Menlo Park, CA. 94025    uunet!infmx!billd  or  billd@informix.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.lang.perl
From: sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
Subject: What is the format of a mailbox file?
Followup-To: comp.mail.misc
Organization: University of Virginia - Physiology Dept.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:30:46 GMT


What is the format of a unix mailbox file and where can the 
definition be found. ( I didn't see any pointers in the man
page for 'mail'. )

How is the status of new, read, etc. indicated in the file? 

BTW: the reason for the question is that I need to write a filter
to split/merge and generally reorganize my mailboxes. If anyone has
any hints on a good program to do this, I'm listening. And that's why
I've tacked 'comp.lang.perl' onto the Newsgroups line. I would expect
someone must have done something like this in Perl, already. 

- Steve 

======== "If you have a hammer, find a nail" - George Bush,'91  =========
 Steven D. Majewski		University of Virginia Physiology Dept.
 sdm7g@Virginia.EDU		Box 449 Health Sciences Center
 Voice: (804)-982-0831/32	1300 Jefferson Park Avenue
 FAX:   (804)-982-1616		Charlottesville, VA 22908
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.os.vms
From: egger@ubeclu.unibe.ch (Martin Egger)
Subject: Re: Callable VMS MAIL - Where's the Documentation?
Reply-To: EGGER@ID.unibe.ch
Organization: University of Bern, Switzerland
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:05:27 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.125304.1@lib.haifa.ac.il>, jody@lib.haifa.ac.il 
(Yosef Branse) writes:
>Over a period of time I have seen postings that mention the callable interface
>for VMS MAIL. Can anyone tell me where the documentation is?  I promise, I've
>looked - we have the VMS documentation set for 5.0, with updates through 
>5.4xx. I fail to find any reference to callable MAIL in the master index, the
>MAIL manual, or any of the programming manuals (system routines, system
>services, run-time library).

It's in "VMS Utility Routines Manual" (Programming Vol 3), Chapter 9.
From: ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: What is the format of a mailbox file?
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:04:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Interactive Software Engineering, Santa Barbara CA

Quoting sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski) from comp.lang.perl:
>What is the format of a unix mailbox file and where can the 
>definition be found. ( I didn't see any pointers in the man
>page for 'mail'. )

The format of the *unix* mail box (i.e. the format in which the mail
delivery subsystem stores the mail in the system mail box) is really
simple:

It starts with a From line describing the sender of the message (idented
for clarity only):

	From <internet_address> <date string> [remote from <site>]

For instance:

	From ram@lyon.eiffel.com  Wed Aug 26 16:02:12 1992

The "remote from" part is used by UUCP and apparently by SYSV R4 mail.
It is not recognized by old mail programs, I think.

Then the RFC-822 mail follows. It is composed of a set of headers, a
blank line (single newline) which marks the end of header, and then the
body of the mail itself. Note that the end of the message is marked by the
end of the file, or the beginning of another message. This is why it is
important to escape the leading "From" lines in the body of a message, or
some simple mail handling tools are confused. Usually, appending a '>' as in
>From is sufficient.

>How is the status of new, read, etc. indicated in the file? 

This is a mail user-agent convention, and it may vary. But traditional
/usr/bin/mailx (aka /usr/ucb/Mail) simply add a Status: line in the header
of the message.

>BTW: the reason for the question is that I need to write a filter
>to split/merge and generally reorganize my mailboxes. If anyone has
>any hints on a good program to do this, I'm listening. And that's why
>I've tacked 'comp.lang.perl' onto the Newsgroups line. I would expect
>someone must have done something like this in Perl, already. 

Sorry, I only have a perl program to sort message *before* they arrive into
your mailbox. For post-processing, I use MH, which stores messages in
individual files -- makes life *much* easier as you may use traditional
shell scripts to process your mail and don't even have to use perl! :-)

Good luck!
-- 
Raphael Manfredi <ram@eiffel.com>
Interactive Software Engineering Inc.
270 Storke Road, Suite #7                      / Tel +1 (805) 685-1006 \
Goleta, California 93117, USA                  \ Fax +1 (805) 685-6869 /
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