Fwd: How to get rid of +OK nnnn octets strings [jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net]

[John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr webmail bmi net>]

On 2001.07.05 17:04 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:

Well, I'm using procmail 3.21 on FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE as a mailbox
filter for Balsa 1.14_2.  Some of the time, things work great.  But,
particularly with IE 5.x, Netscape, mutt, and Pine-originated
messages, I get a "+OK nnnn octests" (where nnnn is some number) just
below the From jmcoopr some-date line in the messages I receive.  This
confuses Balsa no end.  Manually deleting the +OK string make Balsa
happy, but: 1) I can't figure out why procmail is appending this
string to my inbound messages; 2) I can't figure out any way to
eliminate this string from these messsages automatically; and 3)
manually deleting is not practical when I receive several hundred
messages per day.

Any ideas?

jmc

---- end of my original message -----

Well, I finally figured out how to get procmail to work well with
balsa.  The critical component is the following procmail recipe, which
MUST come first:

:0
{
	:0 fw
	* ^\+OK.*$
	| perl -pe 's:\+OK.*\n::'

	:0 afw
	| formail -I 'From ' -a 'From '
}

This gets rid of the nasty +OK nnnn octets string that kept balsa from
properly interpreting the e-mails.  Again, to stress, this MUST be the
first recipe in .procmailrc--come before any other.  It works for me,
but YMMV

jmc