mail's ignore command

[Mark D. Freeman]

I get lots and lots of mail.  Most of the actual messages are only a few lines
long, but have these absurd 20 line machine-generated headings on them.  Lots
of lines telling me what time and date every machine between Columbus and
California has seen this message.  I read my mail at 1200 BAUD, and this is
really annoying.  I came across an 'ignore' command in the main man page, but
noone at my site knows how to use it.  

The idea being that I could put a line in my .mailrc file that would have
mail omit the lines starting with "Received:" and "Message:" and other things
I'd rather not see unles I specifically ask for them.  Theoretically, the
t and p commands should ignore the ignored heading lines, and the T and P
commands should show everything.

How do I implement this?  We are running 4.2bsd on a VAX 11/750.

I do not normally read this group, so mail replies would be appreciated (even
if I have to read all those header lines in your message :-)

Thanks.
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Mark D. Freeman                                             mdf at osu-eddie.uucp
StrongPoint Systems, Inc.                                   mdf at osu-eddie.arpa
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