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From: Steve Hayes <hayes...@telkomsa.net>
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Subject: Re: Deleting unwanted message headers from saved email
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:54:04 +0200
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On 20 Sep 2012 14:05:12 GMT, Loki Harfagr <l...@thedarkdesign.free.fr.INVALID>
wrote:

>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:46:47 +0200, Steve Hayes did cat�:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:56:13 +0100, dave.gma+news...@googlemail.com.invalid
>> (Dave Gibson) wrote:
>> 
>>>  # Insert the following line here
>>>/^-- End --/ { print ; body = 0 ; next }
>> 
>> Brilliant, thanks. 
>> 
>>>The gibberish is the message body encoded as base64 -- it's not associated
>>>with a specific header.
>> 
>> Ah, yes, with that addition I can see that.
>
>If you want some more fun you may like and try to finish that game
>I started some time in the past but stopped right when it served my
>needs ATM instead of making it fully RFC compliant ;-)
>That was a shell wrapper for some awk parts which would encode or
>decode base64 stuff.

Wow, and I was just thinking of playing with something that might discard the
whole message if it had base64 stuff. 

But when I've learnt a bit more of the basics I might try it. 


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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk