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  1. #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
  2. #
  3. # this will only work in 1.8.7, since mailread.rb is not present after that
  4. # supply the path of any mbox file such as ~/mbox or ~/mail/read-mail
  5. # and see a listing of mails, then give a msg number and see body
  6. require 'mailread'
  7.  
  8. BOLD       = "\e[1m"
  9. CLEAR      = "\e[0m"
  10.  
  11. MAILBOX = ARGV[0] ||  "mbox"
  12. mbox = File.open(MAILBOX)
  13. count = lines = 0
  14. # array of mails
  15. mails = []
  16. # read up the warning message, we don't want it in our array
  17. msg = Mail.new(mbox)
  18. while !mbox.eof?
  19.   msg = Mail.new(mbox)
  20.   count += 1
  21.   m = msg.header
  22.   printf("%2d : %2s [%15s] %s\n", count,  m['Status'], m['From'], msg.header['Subject'])
  23.   mails << msg
  24. end
  25. mbox.close
  26. #puts mails.size
  27.  
  28. # ask user for a number and print body for that
  29. while true
  30.   print "Enter a mail number [1 to #{mails.size}]:"
  31.   n = STDIN.gets.chomp
  32.   break if n.nil? || n.empty? 
  33.   msg = mails[n.to_i-1]
  34.   body = msg.body
  35.   puts
  36.   string= "#{msg.header['Subject']}"
  37.   puts "#{BOLD}#{string}#{CLEAR}"
  38.   puts "-" * string.length
  39.   puts body
  40. end
  41.  

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