On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > I've been trying to get in touch with the c.o.l.a. moderator (I'm pretty > sure that's who it was) to get permission to add a modified version of > his procmail filter to /usr/doc/procmail/examples. It includes things > like blacklist, whitelist, vacation, newsgroup filters, etc. However, I > haven't had a response so I may just send it to the procmail maintainer > to see what he/she thinks.
This is rediculous. First of all, I get my mail from a POP3 server on some system somewhere I don't even have access to. There's no way for me to filter incoming mail. I have to download all of it first -- and its costs a helluva lot more to connect here than it does in the heart land. Second of all, requiring newbies to use procmail filters just to get help is totally unreasonable. I think if they can figure out procmail, they don't need much help in the first place. > > > Another idea/question - can a filter explode messages from > > debian-user-digest? > > There's a debian package for this, try looking through the packages file > for digest. I know I've seen it before. If you happen to have procmail installed, there's a binary in the package called formail. From the man page: EXAMPLES To split up a digest one usually uses: formail +1 -ds >>the_mailbox_of_your_choice or formail +1 -ds procmail The former is safe as long as your sure there won't be anything else writing to the "mailbox_of_your_choice" file at the same time. Incidentally, I think the second example should be a pipe, e.g.: formail +1 -ds | procmail and this would require having a working procmail configuration. I don't know anything about any digest specific package, but it may be simpler if you're not sure about the race condition issue. I do this currently and dump it into a file that nothing would possibly write to, then I read it as a folder in pine. Case in point? Debian-* may be the first mailing list(s) in history that you need to _learn_ how to read (the mailing list, not the words -- of course you'd have to know how to read those too!) Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .