Headings in generic mail files can be filtered as the file is being converted. The form of the filtering is described in a user-generated text file. The interpretation of the data in the file is specified by a set of radio buttons in the Header Settings dialog.
To keep only the headers in the file, select the radio button Keep Headers In File. To keep all but the headers in the fule, select the radio button Filter Headers In File. To disable special header treatment, select the radio button Ignore Headers In File. To select the file itself, click the button next those radio buttons in the Header Settings dialog (this will be disabled if you've disabled special header treatment). To force an immediate read of this file, use the Read Now button in the Header Settings dialog.
For example, consider the following file, enterted as ordinary text via SimpleText:
From:
Date:
Subject:
Newsgroups:
Selecting this file and the radio button Keep Headers In File would cause all headers except From, Date, Subject and Newsgroups to be filtered out. Selecting this file and the radio button Filter Headers In File would remove From, Date, Subject and Newsgroups and keep all other headers (you probably wouldn't want to do this :-).
With generic files, header filtering occurs in place, as the file is being converted. Adding this capability for every format is far too ugly; on the other hand, it's clearly desirable to be able to filter headers in any mailbox. The compromise solution is to provide in-place header filtering of sendmail files as well as generic files. Since the output of MCV is in sendmail format, any file can therefore be filtered by doing a second (filtering) pass on the result of the first (conversion) pass. Existing Eudora mailboxes can be filtered as well.
The Header Settings dialog is now on the (new) Special menu. The old Special menu is now called Drop, and some new keyboard equivalents have been added for your convenience....The new Special menu also contains two other commands: Read Headers File, which reparses the current file (you can also do this from the settings); and Edit Headers File, which invokes the creating application on the file, as if you had double-clicked it. Together these two commands should make it very easily to modify and reparse the headers file at anytime. They will only be enabled if a file has been designated and if you haven't selected Ignore Headers In File.
