NAME

       newsbody - Run a program on the body of a mail or news message

SYNOPSIS

       newsbody [-fhqsv] [-k headername ] -n message -p program [-- [ arguments...  ]]

DESCRIPTION

       newsbody copies the body of a news or email article in message to a temporary file (called
       the bodyfile) and then calls program with its arguments.  program is supposed  to  somehow
       change  the  bodyfile.   It  can  for instance be a spell checker. Afterwards the possibly
       changed body is remerged with the headers and copied back into the message.

       If message is specified as - then newsbody will act as a filter, i.e. standard  input  and
       standard output will be used.

       %f in the arguments will be expanded to the name of the bodyfile, or - if the -f option is
       used. Use %% for a real % character.

OPTIONS

       -f     The called program is a filter so don't make a temporary file, but pipe the body to
              its standard input and read it back from its standard output.

       -h     Keep  the  entire  header.  This  flag  can also be used if newsfile doesn't have a
              header at all.

       -q     Also remove quotes before filtering the body. Lines starting with > are  considered
              quotes.

       -s     Also remove signature before filtering the body.

       -k headername
              Keep these header lines in the bodyfile. Multiple -k flags are allowed.

       -v     Print the version and exit.

FILES

       newsbody  uses  one  or  two  temporary  files  with  names given by the mkstemp(3) or the
       tmpnam(3) function.

BUGS

       If some system call gives an unexpected error newsbody will stop immediately with an error
       message leaving its temporary files.

AUTHOR

       Byrial Jensen <byrial@image.dk>

SEE ALSO

       pospell(1).