On 20Mar2022 13:36, Martin Trautmann <tr...@gmx.de> wrote: >do you know about any mutt script that would go from message to message >and > >1) remove a html part if a plain text part is given > >2) remove all trailing lines, > starting with a quote sign ">" > and at least e.g. 10 occurences > > such as (^>[.*][\r\n]){9,} before the end of the message > > Maybe I could append xzxzxzx to the end of the message first, delete >a fullquote up to there and remove xzxzxzx again? > > Bonus: Do not remove fullquotes for messages without in-reply-to or >references headers. > >3) remove header lines which are longer than 5 lines > >I want to shrink the size of some mailboxes for archive purposes, >without throwing away too much.
I think you'll have to write your own. At minimum you need a full mail message parser so that you are not filtering, say, base64 or QP content incorrectly. So something which scans a mailbox and for each message: - decodes it completely - applies your filters - assembles the new message and write this out to a new mailbox (so it isn't destructive and can be compared to the original - you don't want to accidentally shred your archive). I'd do this in Python myself - it has a good email library and you can do all the things you describe fairly easily with it. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>