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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Subject: Re: automatic mail to folders
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.150850.2372@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Dec27.214418.13107@ramon.bgu.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:08:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.214418.13107@ramon.bgu.ac.il> arthur@ivory.bgu.ac.il (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.
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- I have a filter that sorts it when it comes in, and use the .forward to
- send my incoming to the script. Would something like that do?
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