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 Filter 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. As of release 1.9.2, header filtering also works for AOL and eWorld files.
Some other Header Settings:
Ignore Case In Headers: The matcher used by the filtering code will be case-insensitive if this flag is on.
Replace Sendmail Separator: If this is on, a new header will be generated to replace the existing separator
in sendmail files. This is only useful if you have unusually long separators, which may cause Eudora to choke.
Convert AOL/eWorld To & cc: In some cases, the address fields (From, To, and cc) of an AOL or eWorld message
will not have full internet addresses. MailConverter will always try to correct the From field (in order to get Reply to
work in Eudora) but it will not, by default, do the same for To and cc, in order to keep the output file-size from
growing beyond the expected buffer size. If you want address correct for To and cc, check this box. When this option
is on, converting AOL and eWorld files will require considerably larger buffers; and if you have a large number of To
and cc fields, you may encounter the Buffer Overflow error. So it's better to leave this option off unless necessary.
See Generic Formats for a description of the other items in this dialog.
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 Filter File.
