NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/mail/misc/4110

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From: [e-mail] (Ken Bibb)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: automatic mail to folders
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Date: 28 Dec 92 03:44:12 GMT
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In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Arthur Goldstein) writes:

>I would like to set up a system for automatically moving mail to different
>folders for some friends who are using the Pine mail reader.  Teaching them
>to use another mailer is not a good solution for them.

>They are using the Unix system and I was thinking of writing a script that
>would read from /usr/spool/mail and based on key words extract email
>and automatically place it in specified files while leaving some mail
>in /usr/spool/mail.

>Does anyone have something already set up that I could use?

You could use the deliver package (I think I got mine from ftp.uu.net--
ask archie for the nearest site to you).  Deliver can select on a number
of criteria and do a number of different things with the email.

Alternatively, I think I was once told that pine itself will do some
basic processing...

--
Ken Bibb                "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
[e-mail]     universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
[e-mail]     their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
                --"The Dead", James Joyce