Re: format and output all received: lines in an e-mail message

[Valdis Klētnieks]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 10:41:34 +0530, Greg Minshall said:
> hi.  i'd like first, of course, to thank you all for nmh!
>
> then, i'd like to use something like fmttest(1) to print out all the
> "Received:" lines in an e-mail message.  ideally, each "Received:" line
> would come out on a separate line; less ideally, but i'm sure very
> practical, a very long line would come out, with some odd ascii code
> separating the individual lines.

Well.... in the "not using mh tools at all" category, if you have procmail
installed, you can just use:

[~] cat Mail/inbox/1 | formail -c -x Received
 from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])         by turing-police.cc.vt.edu 
(8.12.6.Beta1/8.12.6.Beta1) with ESMTP id g86N6Pbs020540     for 
<valdis@localhost>; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:06:25 -0400
 from fan.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.8]      by localhost with POP3 
(fetchmail-5.9.0)        for valdis@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 06 Sep 2002 
19:06:25 -0400 (EDT)
 from dagger.cc.vt.edu ([10.1.1.11])  by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail 
Server sims.3.5.2001.05.04.11.50.p10)  with ESMTP id <address@hidden> for 
valdis@sims-ms-daemon; Fri,  6 Sep 2002 19:05:21 -0400 (EDT)
 from mail01.corp.tellme.com (mail01.corp.tellme.com [209.157.157.98])  by 
dagger.cc.vt.edu (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.0-GA)  with ESMTP id 
AQM10446; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
 from mail01.corp.tellme.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])  by localhost.tellme.com 
(Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE5744BDD for  <address@hidden>; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 
16:05:19 -0700 (PDT)
 from dhcp157-180.corp.tellme.com  (dhcp157-180.corp.tellme.com 
[209.157.157.180]) by mail01.corp.tellme.com  (Postfix) with ESMTP id 
A6F5444BDA for <address@hidden>; Fri,  06 Sep 2002 16:05:18 -0700 (PDT)

(Note that this returns the *values* of the lines, not the line.
 | sed -e 's/^/Received: /'  if that matters to you.

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