Mail transparency

Mail transparency

[Florian Weimer]

I need an interface which safes a version of a mail message which is
the bit-by-bit equivalent of the message that was snarfed from some
UNIX mbox file.  Does such a function exist already?

Re: Mail transparency

[Simon Josefsson]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> I need an interface which safes a version of a mail message which is
> the bit-by-bit equivalent of the message that was snarfed from some
> UNIX mbox file.  Does such a function exist already?

`O f' (gnus-summary-save-article-file) should work, unless the backend
alters the message before Gnus sees it.

Re: Mail transparency

[Florian Weimer]

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>
>> I need an interface which saves a version of a mail message which is
>> the bit-by-bit equivalent of the message that was snarfed from some
>> UNIX mbox file.  Does such a function exist already?
>
> `O f' (gnus-summary-save-article-file) should work, unless the backend
> alters the message before Gnus sees it.

And nnml is such an altering backend. :(

(From, Lines:, X-From-Line:, X-Gnus-Mail-Source:, Xref:)

It's probably easier to change SpamProbe...

Re: Mail transparency

[Kai Großjohann]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> And nnml is such an altering backend. :(
>
> (From, Lines:, X-From-Line:, X-Gnus-Mail-Source:, Xref:)
>
> It's probably easier to change SpamProbe...

Now I see what you mean.  Hm.  I think that there is a limited number
of things that Gnus does to the article.  So you should be able to
restore the original article.

X-From-Line is a header that contains the contents of the From_ line.

X-Gnus-* headers are obviously added by Gnus, and Xref, too.

Now sure what to think about about Lines.

Hm.  But if the message contained one of those headers, you're
probably screwed :-/
-- 
A turnip curses Elvis

Re: Mail transparency

[David S Goldberg]

Taking a very unscientific look at my ~/.Mail/Incoming* files (I only
have a few since the only way mail gets to the POP spool file is if my
home directory is offline and the .forward to imap isn't available)
suggests that you can get what you want by setting
mail-source-incoming to nil but will have to do some work to find the
right Incoming* file for a given message.
-- 
Dave Goldberg
david.goldberg6@verizon.net