Subject: Re: Any pattern-matching and filtering capability in Pine 3.91

From: Scott Lawrence <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 09:07:03 -0400

On Wed, 31 May 1995, LervA wrote:

> In article <[email-masked]> you wrote:
> : I'm a new user of Pine (only started using it this month), and would like 
> : to know if Pine has any utilities for redirecting mail to specific 
> : folders based on their subject or their sender.
> : If Pine lacks such utilities, are there others that can do the same 
> : thing?  If the only thing that will do the job is the utility "filter", 
> : examples of rules files would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> : Scott
> 
> Did you ever find out anything about this?
> I was wondering the same thing.

I saw no posts in the group that answered this question.  You're the only 
person I've received mail from who even mentioned it.

Scott

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From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 06:48:02 -0400

As the Pine docs say, filtering is left out - to be done by other 
programs, like procmail (which is a really great mail handler, BTW)!

 Zoli [email-masked] (note my old full address @bcuxs2 is retired)
"For my assured failures and derelictions, I ask pardon beforehand of my
betters and my equals in my calling." - Rudyard Kipling

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From: Michael Pollak <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 03:51:02 -0400

> > : examples of rules files would be greatly appreciated.

It's true, there is no filtering in Pine.  However, if you mark 
"enable-aggregate-commands" in the config file, you can sort things out 
pretty fast with the following sequence of commands:

;  -- enables aggregate command
t  -- mark by Text
a  -- search All text (sometimes the mailing list name is only in the CC)
s  -- Save
foldername -- folder you want to save it in
x -- eXpunge.  Removes the files.

You can then repeat the process if you have several mailing lists to deal 
with.  In the end, which comes pretty quick, you've got all your personal 
mail in front of you, and all the mailing list mail in the appropriate 
folders.  Personally I found this simpler and more fool proof than 
Procmail for mailing lists that generated under fifty letters a day.

Hope this helps,

Michael

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Michael Pollak................New York [email-masked]

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From: Michael Pollak <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 03:51:02 -0400

Hope this helps,

Michael