Modify stored mail contents?

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Sat Jul 22 16:56:19 EEST 2017


On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 12:51:15 +0200, Evan Martin stated:

>Is there a safe way to modify the contents of emails stored by
>Dovecot? I'll probably only want to change the message bodies, not the
>headers, if that matters. Looking for ways to do this both for
>existing emails and new emails as they are received (though anything
>that works for existing emails can probably just be run again for new
>emails.) My mail storage is currently mdbox, but I could migrate to
>another format if that helps.

You could just view the message in your MUA and then save it to another
drive, or whatever. Then, using a text editor, you could modify it to
your hearts content.

Exactly, what problem are you trying to address?

-- 
Jerry


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