Good point. I'll just compile procmail and use the recipe feature to filter emails. Thanks.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:34:39 -0600 >From: Earl Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Non-procmail method of filtering email and bypassing /var/mail/<user> storage? >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On January 9, 2004 at 08:05, Harvey Tokunaga wrote: > >> 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? > >Use Perl. > >It does require that you can code in Perl, but you can do all >the filtering with a Perl script. > >Your Perl script can read the message data and use pattern matches >to determine the destination archive. NOTE: You should cache >the message data you read since you will need to pipe it to mhonarc. > >Once you know the destination archive, call mhonarc with the >desired arguments and pipe the message to it. > >--ewh > >P.S. If you can compile programs on your system, you could always >install procmail yourself into a local directory. >