Subject: Directing Incoming Mail and Stripping Headers

From: [email-masked] (Lois Patterson)
Date: 4 Jul 1995 21:02:23 -0700

I have a feeling that my questions are probably fairly elementary, but I 
would really appreciate any help.

1)  Is it possible to direct mail from a single address (a list, say from
abc@host) into its own folder without it getting into my inbox?

2) Is there a way I can make a batch file to strip all the headers from 
the messages that are in this folder?

Thank you for your help.

Lois Patterson
[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 10:41:52 -0400

On 4 Jul 1995, Lois Patterson wrote:

| I have a feeling that my questions are probably fairly elementary, but I 
| would really appreciate any help.

    No way to find out but ask.  :-)
 
| 1)  Is it possible to direct mail from a single address (a list, say from
| abc@host) into its own folder without it getting into my inbox?

    Pine by itself does not do this.  You need mail filtering software 
which preprocesses the mail before Pine gets hold of it.  On Un*x 
systems, a common software package to do this is procmail.  Rather than 
take up space here, email me if you are on a Un*x system, and I can 
point you to some instructions about procmail.  It's pretty easy to do.  
I am very glad the capability exists.
 
| 2) Is there a way I can make a batch file to strip all the headers from 
| the messages that are in this folder?

    Maybe somebody will already have this one worked out and will be 
willing to share.

Paul
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