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Short: Remove text in [] from subjects (YAM)
Author: Stephan Huebner (sh@amigagadget.de)
Uploader: Stephan Huebner (sh@amigagadget.de)
Version: 3.1
Type: comm/mail
Requires: YAM 2.x ???
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* SnipSubject V3.1 *
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(c) 1999 Stephan Huebner
Introduction
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This little arexx-proggie is for YAM and snips out [everything] within those
brackets which the users wants it to (usefull for mailinglists).
So if you have a subject like "RE: [YAM] Anything", the Resulting subject will
be "RE: Anything".
It's emailware, so I'd like to get an email of you, maybe commenting the programm
or talking about everything you want.
It's still beta so I'd recommend to try it the first times with some unimportant
mails.
Features:
---------
- Cuts out what the user wants to
- Cuts out all the appearances of the string in one subject
- At the moment it works on a whole folder, so beware of the amount of time it
might take on large folders.
- Is still beta, cause there might be some weird MLs where it doesn't work
- Upper or Lower typing doesn't matter. So "yam" is the same as "YAM"
- It reformats the subject a bit, as I needed it for working correct. What it
does is that it also cuts out appearances of more than one space and replacing
it with just one space. So if you have something like "Re: [YAM] XXX" you
will have "Re: XXX" afterwards
Installation:
-------------
just copy it to "YAM:rexx/" or wherever you have your YAM-arexx-scripts installed
Disable the "wait until termination"-checkbutton in configuration, or else the
script doesn't seem to work
Placing it in the arexx-menu should work, too.
Also the rexxreqtools-library is needed.
What still doesn't work:
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- It changes all the changed mails to "New/Unread". I tried the command to set
the status back to "read" but that doesn't seem to work. So you'll have to
change the mails back to unread yourself :-(
One person responded that it did exactly what it should with yp6, there are
at least one other were it doesn't :-(
Also in some cases weird things seem to happen, like not changing the subject
or changing the status, so beware.
Future
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Depends on what reactions I get. My eMail is: sh@amigagadget.de
So any comments are very welcome
I plan to make it a bit saver (ie. test if the library is really there and
such things)
If you have problems please mail me. If there are Mailing lists were the script
doesn't work, it would be good to tell me, how I can subscribe to that list
cause this way I can compare the original and the changed mails. Thanks.
Also there are already some suggestions like a prefs-file with some "standard"-
things to look for in the mails.
If you have any
History (as far as I remember it):
==================================
V0.1beta Initial (internal) version
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- Cut out everything within []
- Worked only on one selected mail
- Put the mail into ram:T, worked on it and copied it back
V1.0beta Somehow my proggie but changed a lot by Lau W. Nielsen :-)
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V2.0beta Included function to let the user choose what to snip
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- Works on a whole folder now
- Lets' the user type in what to snip out
V2.5Beta
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- found and removed a bug reported by Jim Boydston (and John Pullicino at
version 1.0) regarding some MLs which formatted the header-lines so nothing
was cut out
V3.0Beta
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- A good amount of the script was rewritten, so the code now looks much cleaner,
is smaller and faster
- Implemented to cut out more than one apperances in one subject at last
- Included an idea of Lau W. Nielsen (shown to me in an earlier version)
regarding a speed-up of the programm, so it now changes the mail directly
without writing or copying something else around
V3.1Beta
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- Released on Aminet (if that works, I've never done that before)
- found and removed a silly bug reported by Lorens Johannsson (caused by the
rewrite :-) ), which made it not working
- Wrote a small documentation at last (this file) :-)
(c) 1999 Stephan Huebner
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