Re: filtering headers from forwarded messages

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

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* 2020-12-31 17:39:23-0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On Wed 2020-12-30 12:46:02 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> What about forwarding a message as MIME part which is just "text/plain"
>> (and not "message/rfc822")?
>
> This might be useful for some people, but doesn't really satisfy my
> goals.  When i want to forward a message, i want to forward the whole
> message -- multipart, with attachments, etc.  My goal when forwarding is
> to *not* mangle the message, but rather to supply it to the new
> recipient in a parseable way.  I just don't think that most recipients
> need to have access to (for example) the headers that are added by all
> the mail transport agents along my receipt path.  I want them filtered
> for privacy, which i think isn't unreasonable.

OK, that is reasonable. Somehow I thought that you wanted a
pretty-printed message (old inline style) but still valid email form.
But yes, it would be nice to filter headers like "Received", maybe
"DKIM-Signature" and various unofficial headers starting with "X-".

For a quick first step I would probably try running "C-u M-|"
(shell-command-on-region) in Emacs and pipe the forwarded message
through command like this:

    formail -I Received -I DKIM-Signature -I X-Whatever

Probably after that I would integrate that shell command call in one
Emacs command and then implement the functionality in Emacs Lisp. But so
far I haven't cared enough.

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