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Grex Info Item 259: Filtering Mail
Entered by mortini on Sat Oct 14 09:18:51 UTC 1995:

I would like to setup folders for filtering mail...  Does anyone know how to do
this???  Any help would be very much appreciated!

-=Michael Phillippi=-

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by bjorn on Sat Oct 14 12:35:28 1995:

There is already an item on this that I entered ad vidar.  Please refer
to item 81, everything is explained therein.
I could state that information over again, but that would be a grand
waste of my time before RPSIG.
Thanks for asking, though.

#2 of 14 by robh on Sat Oct 14 14:45:54 1995:

Yep, check out the other item.  I went on at great length about
the beauty of the Elm filter.  If you have any questions,
you can send me mail.

#3 of 14 by popcorn on Sun Oct 15 05:27:15 1995:

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#4 of 14 by scg on Sun Oct 15 05:32:57 1995:

It's been a while since I've looked into it, but I think it's the same.  You
just have the filter put mail into a different folder rather than throwing
it away.

#5 of 14 by robh on Sun Oct 15 11:11:08 1995:

scg is correct.  The filter command to handle that is:

        if (from contains "robh") then save "/u/popcorn/robh"
        if (from contains "whoever@whatever.net") then save "/u/popcorn/foobar"

and so on.  Yes, you do have to use the full pathname for the
save files, I discovered this the hard way.  >8)

#6 of 14 by bjorn on Sun Jul 28 13:41:16 1996:

So, what if I desire to have the messages sent to a pine folder - the setup
I have currently won't work?

#7 of 14 by robh on Sun Jul 28 14:30:10 1996:

I looked at your filter rules, and tested them with the -r
option, and they look fines.  Can you give an example of
what you were trying to do, with the full filter-rules file?
(Saying "it doesn't work" without saying *what* doesn't work
isn't the easiest thing for us to debug.)

#8 of 14 by bjorn on Tue Jul 30 02:03:43 1996:

As far as I've seen, messages that a supposed to be sent to my PLANESCAPE
folder do indeed reach a folder - but one that is created whe such messages
are received and having nothing to do with pine.  I'm willing to look in the
pine PLANESCAPE folder and see if anything is hiding there, but I don't think
there will be and I'll also double-check the first part of my answer.

#9 of 14 by bjorn on Tue Jul 30 02:09:24 1996:

Yep.  Everything checks out exactly as I mentioned above - I'm going to delete
that folder now (not that it'll do me much good with the mailing list people
sending things at all times).

#10 of 14 by robh on Tue Jul 30 07:08:25 1996:

One thing you may need to keep in mind - Pine tries to access
mail folders from your "mail" directory, not your home directory.
If you're loading Pine and trying to open PLANESCAPE, that's
not going to work, since PLANESCAPE is in your home directory.

The easiest solution to this is to change your filter rules so
they save to /u/bjorn/mail/PLANESCAPE instead.  I'm not a Pine
expert, so I couldn't tell you how to force Pine to look in your
home directory.

#11 of 14 by popcorn on Wed Jul 31 04:23:09 1996:

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#12 of 14 by bjorn on Wed Jul 31 15:24:17 1996:

In other words, popocorn, you're just reitterating what robh already said?
I'll try it.
I'll probably add other commands to auto-delete filterlog and filtersum files
- unless that will mess things up.

#13 of 14 by popcorn on Thu Aug 1 05:07:51 1996:

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#14 of 14 by bjorn on Fri Aug 2 19:38:21 1996:

Okay.  Anyway, the messages are now getting to pine, but appearantly not to
the proper folders.

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