Recent content by slolerner

THANK YOU ROB! Addressing what appears to be your last question/request to "add in a sample from the original email file again: /var/mail/debbienl".. I am glad to do so, but wonder whether I understand what you want me to do, keeping in mind that each of these messages with all the html markup...

Rob! UR a Pince! ust so you'll know, even being a ral slo lerner, I already did just that and was so pleased that it worked! Now that it works, I see that it is criminally SLOW, when there is an accumulation of messages in that folder. Keeping in mind that my host has installed only some of...

Rob! Thx! Getting there! First try nothing was printed. I changed/shortened the first id, appears some problem writing the escape characters backward, I don't really know. Any way, the script now prints out the text that is wanted, only, it is still written backwards! L@@ks like the reverse in...

Rob: THANKS! so much for your gracious help! In addition to being a really slolerner my host server has gone out, (hurricane effect, I guess) so I have not been able to grope my way thru your reverse code example, which I see now is clear simpler than my hurried impression as I flailed away at...

Hi Rob! Yes, thanks so much for your interest! The thing is, that, I have no control over the incoming messages. If I could get the sender to work with me, I wouldn't even need this approach. The messages do not contain convenient "unique" identifiers such as you mention. It does seem that...

Hello Rob! Thanks so much for responding! Yes, the reverse(@lines) scheme has been tried. First let me say that I'm dealing with the receiving eMail folder on the server. This means that each incoming message is appended to the existing file, including header data lines and the html rendition...

I am intrigued by how really difficult it is to do "Practical Extract and Report Language" tasks. This little script extracts the plain text from the body of a users's eMail msg on my server and works fine when there is only one message. The thing needed now is that since each new message is...

Thanks! Part of my problem is that the user sends eMail messages of varying length, and there's no way to control their ISP's header content line number and so a line numbe approach won't work will it? I'm a slolerner, for sure, cause I don't immediately see how your second suggestion will...

I have to display a customer's latest eMail drivel on her web page, which I access on my server's mail folder. The code below slpits the text, printing out the body text from the headers and the html mess after, etc. Thing is, each new message is appended to the file so that I need to get to...