On August 30, 2014, Jude DaShiell wrote: > could formail be used to go through email messages in an archive > and delete all of the images from all of those messages in that > archive? How are the emails stored? In mbox format, Maildir, or MH? Those are the most popular 3 on a Linux box. Maildir is the easiest & safest to work with as each message is in its own file and it's popularly supported. MH format is also one-message-per-file but doesn't have quite the same popularity (and thus support) as Maildir. The mbox format is classic, but it's easily corrupted since it has multiple messages in a single file. > other command line tool do this kind of email filtering? I don't know of any existing command-line tool to do such, but I'd be glad to throw together a quick Python script that could discard various attachments by mime-type, so you could purge image/gif and image/jpeg. Of course, I'd test it, but you'd want to make a backup in case something goes wrong and it drinks your beer, steals your truck, drives over your dog, and runs off with your wife. Also, if your local mail-store gets synced from an IMAP server, it might notice that the files have changed and then proceed to restore them with their attachments. -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list