mailfmt(1)mailfmt(1)NAMEmailfmt - Reformat mail/news to wrap lines and remove quotation charac‐
ters
SYNOPSISmailfmt [-ahiorv] [-c char] [-w num]
DESCRIPTION
´mailfmt´ is a Unix and Win32 tool for reformatting news and mail mes‐
sages. It removes leading quotations strings (most often the ´>´ char‐
acter, but this is user selectable from the command line) and wraps
lines to a user specified width. This allows news or mail messages
which have been extensively forwarded and/or quoted to be easily refor‐
matted for ease of reading.
On Unix systems, ´mailfmt´ reads from stdin and writes to stdout.
On Win32 systems, ´mailfmt´ reads from the clipboard and then writes
the results to the clipboard. This is really handy if your are running
a GUI mail client. You cut the desired text (thereby placing it on the
clipboard). Then you run ´mailfmt´ - this is best done with a keyboard
shortcut - Then paste back to your mail client and, voila!, your text
has been reformatted.
On Win32 systems, the input and output can be reassigned to stdin and
stdout respectively, using the -i and -o options.
Normally, errors on a Win32 system will appear as GUI Message Boxes.
If, however, you choose to output to stdout via the -o option, all
errors will be written there instead.
OPTIONS-a Do not remove leading quotation characters. (Default: Remove
leading quotation characters.)
-c character
Change the quotation character to ´char´. (Default: ´>´)
-h Display help information.
-i Get input from stdin. On Unix systems, this is the only possi‐
ble option for input and need not be specified. However, on
Win32 systems, input to defaults to the clipboard. This option
overrides that default allowing Win32 systems to read from
stdin.
-o Send output to stdout. On Unix systems, this is the only possi‐
ble option for output and need not be specified. However, on
Win32 systems, output defaults to the clipboard. This option
overrides that default allowing Win32 systems to write to std‐
out.
-r Do not wrap lines to specified width. (Default: Wrap lines)
-v Display detailed version information.
-w val Set line wrapping width to ´val´. (Default: 75)
OTHER
You must have a reasonably current copy of 'python' installed for
´mailfmt´ to operate.
BUGS AND MISFEATURES
None known as of this release. This is not beautiful code. It is very
hackish in places.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING
´mailfmt´ is Copyright(c) 2002 TundraWare Inc. For terms of use, see
the mailfmt-License.txt file in the program distribution. If you
install ´mailfmt´ on a FreeBSD system using the 'ports' mechanism, you
will also find this file in /usr/local/share/doc/mailfmt.
AUTHOR
Tim Daneliuk
tundra@tundraware.com
TundraWare mailfmt(1)
