Hi Bob Actually I am planning on writing a script which will read the header delete the bogus emails (mostly used by spammers). This raises another question. I have copied the header into emails and sent the message. How was it able treat the header as message and not another message? david On Wed, 12 May 2004, Bob Smith wrote: > From<space>sender@xxxxxxxxx > > Where <space> is... Followed by the RFC-822 header. > > If you use vim, it will show you the headers color coded from the rest > of the message. > > If you're going to programming reading the email files, you might > consider using the Java mail packages and save yourself the trouble. > > -Bob > > > > dbrett wrote: > > >Does any body know how the start and end of individual emails are > >identified in the file INBOX? > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list