Re: [cobalt-users] Maybe OT - easier way to manage mailboxes and maillog

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Edward Bishop wrote:

> Can anyone recommend commands or software to make it easier to (1) view the
> contents of a user's mailbox and read or delete messages and (2) format
> maillog to be more readable?
> 
> I'm fed up typing cat [user] and wading through seas of garbage representing
> an attached image.

Well, stop using cat, use 'less' it has a search built in and you can skip
messages with something like /Subject :)

Other than IMAP hacks, i dunno if anything designed specificlly for what
you are looking for, editing spool files directly is hazardous as heck :)
[if new mail arrives while you are saving the folder, you will loose it]

gsh