Removing the \ehood section of the .forward file prevented the email getting to MHonArc. Does anyone have any other ideas on these issues?
TIA. Harvey Harvey Tokunaga wrote: Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/archives.html#forward Also, I wrote a help script for MHonArc that, among other things, can be used as such a wrapper: http://www.gunnar.cc/mhonarc/mhastart.pl.html I've browsed your doc but I don't think it addresses my issues. My questions are: 1. How do I sort emails titled "Subject 1" to archive 1 and "Subject 2" to archive 2? I don't have access to procmail at this time. 2. How do I avoid sending emails to /var/mail/<user> and, instead, process them directly into MHonArc? It seems that using a .forward file still keeps a copy in my Unix mbox. I know there are methods to remove mbox entries after the fact but can I bypass it completely? Sorry, I should have said that I didn't even try to address the first question, and maybe I misunderstood the second. :( This is the example in the FAQ: \ehood, "|/home/ehood/bin/webnewmail #ehood" If I haven't misunderstood anything, you prevent that a copy is kept by skipping the \ehood, part. As regards the first question, and provided that you are using a wrapper program, I suppose that you would need to write some code that parses the message headers and make the -outdir option dependent on "Subject:". HTH -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl ---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 08:05:07 -0800 >From: Harvey Tokunaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Non-procmail method of filtering email and bypassing /var/mail/<user> storage? >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Gunnar, >I've browsed your doc but I don't think it addresses my issues. > >My questions are: >1. How do I sort emails titled "Subject 1" to archive 1 and "Subject 2" to >archive 2? I don't have access to procmail at this time. >2. How do I avoid sending emails to /var/mail/<user> and, instead, process >them directly into MHonArc? It seems that using a .forward file still keeps a >copy in my Unix mbox. I know there are methods to remove mbox entries after >the fact but can I bypass it completely? > >Thanks, >Harvey > > >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 06:52:02 +0100 >>From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Non-procmail method of filtering email and >bypassing /var/mail/<user> storage? >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Harvey Tokunaga wrote: >>> I've read the posts about using procmail's "recipe" method to sort >>> emails into MHonArc archives. Is there another method I can use if >>> procmail isn't available on my server? >>> >>> I currently use the .forward file to process my emails and am also >>> wondering if there is a way to bypass storing emails in >>> /var/mail/<user> and processing directly into MHonArc. >> >>That is discussed in the FAQ: >> >> http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/faq/archives.html#forward >> >>Also, I wrote a help script for MHonArc that, among other things, can >>be used as such a wrapper: >> >> http://www.gunnar.cc/mhonarc/mhastart.pl.html >> >>-- >>Gunnar Hjalmarsson >>Email: http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl >> >> >