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Article #3307Re: automatic mail to folders
From: James Meritt
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:08
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:08
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In article <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. I have a filter that sorts it when it comes in, and use the .forward to send my incoming to the script. Would something like that do?
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!linus!linus.mitre.org!mwunix!m23364 From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) Subject: Re: automatic mail to folders Message-ID: <1992Dec29.150850.2372@linus.mitre.org> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org Organization: MITRE Corporation, McLean VA References: <1992Dec27.214418.13107@ramon.bgu.ac.il> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:08:50 GMT Lines: 14