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- From: ggurman@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Gail Gurman)
- Subject: Filter and Vacation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.021926.15840@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:19:26 GMT
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- I'm going on vacation this week and I wanted to create a filter that
- would save certain messages to a file and, with the rest, save a copy
- in my mail spool and run vacation.
-
- I tried several different methods of doing this and couldn't get it
- to call vacation properly.
-
- The Elm Filter System Guide gives the following example for using
- vacation as follows:
-
- if (from = "boss") then vacation pat
-
- This is what my filter-rules looked like:
-
- to "bof" ? save "bof"
- always execute "/usr/ucb/vacation ggurman"
-
- The first line works fine. For the second line I tried:
-
- always vacation ggurman
- always savecopy "| vacation ggurman"
- always forward "| vacation ggurman"
-
- Needless to say, none of them worked. The filter log showed that the
- filter had been used (except for "always vacation ggurman" which returned
- an error), but vacation didn't do anything. When I tried the standard,
- non-filter, way of using the vacation program, it worked fine.
-
- By the time I get an answer on this, it will be too late for this
- trip, but can anyone give me an idea as to how to do this in the future?
-
- Thanks very much.
-
- Gail
-
-