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Article #3562Re: Filter and From header line
From: R. David Murray
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:02
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:02
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In article <9301280325.AA16613@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>, ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes: > Ronald Harichandran said: > ]Use of "from" in filter-rules currently matches text on the From: line. > ]With some of the automatic LISTSERVers, the original poster's address is > ]retained in the From: line, and the only way to know that the message is > ]from a particular LISTSERVer is to look at the very first From header > ]line. Is there any way to instruct the filter program to scan the very > ]first From header line in mail? > > The original poster's addr is *always* retained in the "From:" line > when such an item is distributed by LISTSERV. "LISTSERV" of course A possible answer to the question, though, is that, at least in the case of the few LISTSERV lists I am on, the To: header contains the name of the list. I have, for example, 'if to contains IBM-KERM then save ...' in my filter rules file, and that seems to work well. It does not work quite so well for some Internet mailing lists; there, the To: field is not as consistent; sometimes the mailing list name only shows up in the 'Apparently To:' header. Which brings me to a question/suggestion. It seems to me that a filter rule refering to the To field also 'sees' text in the cc: field. Why not be consistent and also look at 'Apparently To:'? Or has all this changed in the new versions (I'm running ELM 2.3 PL11)? -- david david@staff.udc.upenn.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!wal6000b.udc.upenn.edu!david From: david@wal6000b.udc.upenn.edu (R. David Murray) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Filter and From header line Message-ID: <106986@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 28 Jan 93 15:02:34 GMT References: <harichan.727988538@msuinfo> <9301280325.AA16613@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: david@penndrls.upenn.edu Organization: University Data Center, University of Pennsylvania Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: wal6000b.udc.upenn.edu