Subject: advanced use of incoming folders

From: Ted Stern <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 15:38:44 -0800 (PST)

I am subscribed to several mailing lists (including this one!).  Rather 
than have them clutter up my incoming mailbox, is it possible to redirect 
messages to other folders using the 'incoming folders=' option in the 
.pinerc file?  I realize it is possible to save messages to folders, but 
I was looking for an automatic filter.

Or does 'incoming folders=' only work if there are several /usr/spool/mail
files that one has permission to read from? 

	-- Ted
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Ted Stern  <[email-masked]>               UW phone: (206) 685-8068
Dept. of Applied Math, FS-20    University of Washington    Seattle, WA  98195

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 94 16:38:28 PST

> I was looking for an automatic filter.

Look at the elm 'filter' program.

Later...

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 10:20:39 +0800 (TPE)

> files that one has permission to read from? 

	Well, pine is "only" a mail UA.  It does not have any involvement
with the delivery of mail to your mailbox.

	To do what you want you will need to get either "procmail" or
the "filter" routines from the elm distribution.  Both work in similar
fashion in that they make use of the .forward file to forward incoming
mail to a process that distributes the mail according to a set of
rules.

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