Re: frm&& from?

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Wha'ts the difference between frm and from?  I can't seem to find frm 
> anywhere else...

  (**) from was originaly part of BSD distribution, it was a simple program
to show the unix from separator "^From ".  Of course it was of little use
as emails grow and the senders should be rather search in the rfc822
header "From:".  From example Walcomm QPopper(Pop3d) after parsing/expunging
would change the "^From <recipient> <date>" to "^From - <date>".
  Then came Elm, with a real usefull "from" that they call "frm", this
one would parse the headers an spit out usefull information base on options.
It is sometimes use in scritps.  There is a lot of variation of Elm "frm"
in Perl, Tcl/TK etc ...

  In our case the "from" was base on the first code snippet example done
by shaleh, then modified by me to accomodate the new mailbox API.

  My intention is to have a mailutils/utils, with clone of programs including
the set of pratical utilities that come originally with Elm :
frm, answer, from, readmsg, printmail, messages, newmail, etc ...
Those programs are quite easy to code; 1 page or 2. They can sudendly
become quite pratical/powerfull with the new library ex:

# MAIL=imap://address@hidden readmsg 2

This is part of the hidden "world domination" agenda. 

(**) : My facts may be wrong or I may got this backward.


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au revoir, alain
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