Subject: Need a filter....?

From: [email-masked] (Kathleen Richards)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:23:43 GMT

Hi!  I have over 3000 messages in my inbox.  I get mail from some
5 different mailing groups/lists as well as from several individuals
who write to me regularly.  I have two questions/requests for help.
I would be *eternally* grateful for any assistance! :)  I am hoping
for:

    1)  a script that will sort through my inbox as it stands now
        and put letters (in order from the first letters in to the
        last) from each group or individual specified in the script
        into a specified folder (i.e. all letters from the adoption
        mailing list into a folder called "adoption" and so on)

    2)  a script that will in future sort these things as they come
        in and send them to particular groups/mail folders where I
        can check on them at my leisure.  I cannot find anything in
        my email now and it is driving me nuts!!!  :(

Is any of this possible?  I tried a script for sorting beforehand that I
downloaded from here some long time back but could never get it to work.
Basically I would like to be able to, say, check my adoption mail, then
check my reptile mailing list, then check the unix stuff, etc.  I also
get regular letters from a niece and nephew that I want to make sure I
don't miss.  This means that some of the sorting has to be done by "Who
From" (i.e. my niece and/or nephew) and some has to look for the mailing
list title rather than an individual poster/sender.  Anyone?

Thank you very much for your time and kind attention!

-- 
  kathleen richards                            [email-masked]

    "Soon anyone who's not on the World Wide Web will qualify for
     a government subsidy for the home-pageless."  S. Adams, May 1995

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From: "Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:17:05 -0400

I think procmail (or some similarly capable mail-filter program) would do a 
lot better than trying to hack up some script. I think there is a FAQ on 
"mail-server" software or such, where some are described.

 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: [email-masked] (Kathleen Richards)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 05:36:09 GMT

Zoli Fekete, keeper of hungarian-faq ([email-masked]) wrote:
:  I think procmail (or some similarly capable mail-filter program) would do a 
: lot better than trying to hack up some script. I think there is a FAQ on 
: "mail-server" software or such, where some are described.

Thank you kindly - where can I find information about procmail and
is it something I am likely to find on netcom (if any other netcom
people are reading this)?  Thanks again ....

While I am at it, where are the mail-server faqs stored/posted?
Again thanks....

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: 8 Jun 1995 23:46:32 GMT

>people are reading this)?  Thanks again ....

The Filtering Mail FAQ is accessible from:

  http://www.jazzie.com/ii/writing.html

I don't know if Netcom has procmail installed, but I'd like to find out 
so please let us know.

Thanks,
Nancy

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Halvorsen)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 02:56:37 GMT

> I don't know if Netcom has procmail installed, but I'd like to find out 

Yes they do, but as I understand it, if you want to use it with Pine you 
have to use it through an elm filter.
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From: [email-masked] (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: 9 Jun 1995 12:41:07 +0200

>have to use it through an elm filter.

I don't have an account at Netcom, so you might want to take this with a grain
of salt, but as far as I know:
- Netcom has procmail installed, albeit a rather outdated version.
- It can be used by simply setting up a .forward file as in the manpages.
- There is a user-maintained newer version of procmail installed somewhere.
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