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Article #3295Re: automatic mail to folders
From: Ken Bibb
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:44
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 03:44
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In <1992Dec27.214418.13107@ramon.bgu.ac.il> arthur@ivory.bgu.ac.il (Arthur Goldstein) writes: >I would like to set up a system for automatically moving mail to different >folders for some friends who are using the Pine mail reader. Teaching them >to use another mailer is not a good solution for them. >They are using the Unix system and I was thinking of writing a script that >would read from /usr/spool/mail and based on key words extract email >and automatically place it in specified files while leaving some mail >in /usr/spool/mail. >Does anyone have something already set up that I could use? You could use the deliver package (I think I got mine from ftp.uu.net-- ask archie for the nearest site to you). Deliver can select on a number of criteria and do a number of different things with the email. Alternatively, I think I was once told that pine itself will do some basic processing... -- Ken Bibb "he heard the snow falling faintly through the kbibb@qualcomm.com universe and faintly falling, like the descent of jester@crash.cts.com their last end, upon all the living and the dead." --"The Dead", James Joyce
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!agate!stanford.edu!rutgers!network.ucsd.edu!qualcom.qualcomm.com!maui!root From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: automatic mail to folders Message-ID: <root.725514252@maui> Date: 28 Dec 92 03:44:12 GMT References: <1992Dec27.214418.13107@ramon.bgu.ac.il> Sender: news@qualcomm.com Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: maui.qualcomm.com