Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Our mailing list software is throwing a hissy fit and inserting double > subject lines. It might be confusing some email clients... >
Yes, it made serious troubles to my Mozilla (and me) ... accessing mail via IMAP server. This script removes broken subject line from mails in maildir: #!/bin/bash find . | while read a b do if grep -q '^Subject: \[gentoo-user\]$' $a then sed '/^Subject: \[gentoo-user\]$/d' $a > xxx touch -r $a xxx mv xxx $a fi done For MBOX this line should be enough (not tested): sed -i '/^Subject: \[gentoo-user\]$/d' mbox-file HTH noro -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list