reformail — E-mail reformatting tool
reformail -s command [option...]
reformail -D len filename
reformail -x header:...
reformail -X header:...
reformail [options...]
The reformail program reads a message on standard input, reformats it in some way, and writes the message to standard output:
The -s option splits the mbox-formatted mailbox file on
standard input into
individual messages.
An external program is executed for each
message. The contents of each individual message will be provided to the
external program on standard input.
If the FILENO environment variable is set to a number,
reformail will consecutively increment
FILENO
each time the program is executed for each individual
message.
If FILENO is not set, it's initial value will be "000".
If FILENO is set to a non-numeric value,
FILENO will remain unchanged.
The -D option implements a simple way to delete duplicate
messages in incoming mail. filename is a file that
will be approximately 'len' bytes long.
This file will be used by
reformail to save message IDs seen in
recent mail.
reformail reads the message on standard input.
If the message has a Message-ID: header that's already in
the cache file,
reformail terminates with the exit code set to 0. Otherwise,
reformail terminates with the exit code set to 1.
Unlike a similar feature in the formail command, reformail takes care of locking the file, so it's not necessary to implement your own locking mechanism for this option.
The -x and -X options extract the indicated
headers from the message, and print them to standard output. Multiple
-x and -X options can be specified at
the same time, and may be intermixed.
The -x option extracts and prints the contents of the header.
The -X option prints the name of the header as well.
In all other situations, reformail copies the message on its standard input to its standard output, reformatting the message as follows:
Append a custom header to the message if this
header does not already exist. If the header is either
Message-ID: or
Resent-Message-ID: and the value is empty,
reformail generates
a (hopefully) unique message ID for you.
Append a custom header to the message even if this
header already exists. If the header is
either Message-ID: or
Resent-Message-ID:
and the value is empty, reformail generates
a (hopefully) unique message ID for you.
Concatenate multi-line headers. Headers split on multiple lines are combined into a single line.
n
If n is 1, each line will be terminated with CRLF.
If n is 0
(default), each line will be terminated with LF.
reformail reads a
message with either line terminator, and will force the message to have
the specified line termination.
Any initial blank lines are removed. If the first non-blank
line is a
"From_" line, it gets converted to a
"Return-Path:" header, and any existing "Return-Path:" header
gets removed. If the message does not start with a
"From_" line, the message remains unchanged.
Add the "From_" line to the message, if it's not there.
reformail will attempt to generate the
"From_" line from any
Errors-To:, Return-Path:, or
From: headers in the message.
"root" will be used
if
reformail is unable to determine the return address.
header: value'
Appends a custom header to the message. If this
header already exists it is renamed by prepending "Old-"
to the name of
the header.
header: value'Append a custom header to the message. If this header already exists in the message, the old header is completely removed. If the value is empty, any existing header is completely removed, and nothing gets appended.
Rename the indicated header.
If this header occurs multiple times in the message, remove all occurrences except the first one.
If this header occurs multiple times in the message, remove all occurrences except the last one.
For the -a, -A, and -I
options, a space after the header name and the colon is
considered to be a non-empty field.
Do not provide the same header to more than one family of header-modifying
options, such as -u/-U and
-a/-A. Doing so yields unpredictable
results.
It's better to run reformail several times (use a pipe,
perhaps).