[SOLVED] mailx

mfoley · 01-04-2021, 12:31 PM

I'm (still) using mailx 12.5. I am using the .mailrc directive ignore, eg:

Code:

ignore X-MS-Has-Attach
ignore X-MS-TNEF-Correlator
ignore msip_labels

But, every mail service seems have have its one set of not-very-interesting headers. Currently, I have 104 'ignores' in my config. Is there a way to either wildcard these, e.g:

Code:

ignore X-Microsoft-*
ignore X-microsoft-

or include only certain headers when reading a message using mailx, like a 'headerretain' directive? I've tried both wildcard styles shown with no luck.

smallpond · 01-04-2021, 01:40 PM

I don't use mailx anymore but once had to download the source and hack it to fix a security issue. The code is pretty simple. You could probably just skip printing any headers except the ones you're interested in with a few lines of code.

shruggy · 01-04-2021, 01:57 PM

Wouldn't it be easier to use retain instead and only list the headers not to be discarded?

mfoley · 01-07-2021, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

Wouldn't it be easier to use retain instead and only list the headers not to be discarded?

Duh! Yes, that is easier and did work. Now I have 11 'retain' directives instead of 134 'ignores'. I don't know how I missed that in the first place.