On 09/08/2010 04:03 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a program that can manipulate mbox files? I'd like > to print about 50 emails to a single file so I can email them as a PDF > to someone. > > Thunderbird will let you highlight and print multiple emails, but they > all either overwrite each other or save to an individual file with all > the headers, not just the ones that are suitable for display. i am not aware of such a program, other that a 'digester', see below. to get all of emails in one file, create a new 'folder file', copy emails you want to new folder. outside of thunderbird, open 'folder file' with a text editor and look at headers. you will note that all headers begin "From - " followed with a date. rest of header, lines start with a capital character and end with ":". body of email starts with a line space. exceptions to this are some headers that are longer than 80 characters. these headers *usually* wrap and continue with a tab, 11 spaces, or a single space. problems that you will have is removing of: "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=" which are delimited with "--===============" "Content-Type:" delimiters also begin line with 14 "-" dash characters. "Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature";" 'pgp-signatures' are delimited with "--------------enig" and are enclosed with "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----" and "-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----". 3 more problems that you will run into: "Content-Type: text/html" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable" you can use 'grep' to remove most of this, and then hand edit. but, to remove all of this, you will need to use an 'awk'/'gawk' script or a 'digester', see below. you may be aware of this, maybe not. main of presenting this is that possibly someone who has a good grasp of 'awk' and 'gawk' can post some pointers to help you work up a script to clean up thunderbird email to a file for converting to a pdf file. what would be best, is someone who is aware of how tech support sites strip emails for sending as a 'digest'. hth. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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