Re: Mail filtering

2001-08-14 Thread jacob childress
If you are more comfortable with Perl, I'd recommend using the Mail::Audit module. It works fine for me, and writing a filtering script is pretty trivial. Read about it here: http://library.cs.tuiasi.ro/programming/perl/tpj/issues/vol5_2/tpj0502-0002.html (Somebody archived all of the old Perl

Re: Mail filtering

2001-08-13 Thread Michael Orion Jackson
If you already know perl there is a Mail::Filter module that works quite well. (I quickly got fed up with procmail.) -- Michael Jackson | http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~orion Ah, the joys of Xemacs: (psychoanalysis of Zippy) Z: I just lost my WHOLE PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE! Doc: Could this be

Re: Mail filtering

2001-08-09 Thread Austin Bingham
Despite how procmail might look, I would really recommend it. If you poke around enough, you'll find plenty of pre-made procmailrc files and such, one of which probably does what you want. Installing and connecting procmail to your .forward is pretty simple...again, you'll find tons of docs/exampl

Re: Mail filtering

2001-08-08 Thread Paul Sack
Today at 2:54pm, Alex Winbow expounded: ++ How can I accomplish this? I've glanced at procmail, but it looks ++ nontrivial. http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail-faq/mini-faq.html does a good job of explaining procmail w/ examples. Caution is advised if you have your mail spool on an nfs mo

Re: Mail filtering

2001-08-08 Thread tom carlile
use procmail. it isn't trivial, but it is worth learning. after learning it you'll wonder how you got by without it. Alex Winbow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have numerous mail addresses, most of which I forward to the > machine(s) that I actually pull my mail from. I'd like to selective

Mail filtering

2001-08-08 Thread Alex Winbow
I have numerous mail addresses, most of which I forward to the machine(s) that I actually pull my mail from. I'd like to selectively filter before forwarding. Suppose I have address luser@foo, and there exists a .forward in foo:/home/luser simply "luser@bar", so that all mail is f

mail filtering

1998-06-25 Thread Joshua W. Scott
Here's a project: I'd like to set up a mail filter so that when an email is received from a certain address it automatically prints any attached documents ( generally postscript or PDF.) Anybody got an idea about how I should go about this? Thanks, jws ---