Subject: Re: filter

From: Mentor Cana <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:53:34 -0400

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, J. Partusch wrote:
>Hello.
>	I'd like to use the "filter" program to sort my mail before it
>gets to Pine.  I've read the man for it, but I'm still a little confused
>about the commands' syntax.  If anyone out there who's using this
>program would be willing to send me an anonymized copy of their
>/.elm/filter-rules, or if someone could point me to a website that has an

 I suggest you use procmail instead of filter. Procmail can do wonders :-)

later
mentor

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From: Nancy McGough <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 14:36:34 -0400

On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, J. Partusch wrote:
> if someone could point me to a website that has an
> example of this, I'd be quite grateful.

Check out my Mail Filtering and Robots page at:

 http://www.jazzie.com/ii/internet/mailbots.html

> get a printed copy
> of the manual for filter.

Try this:

  man filter > print.me

And then print print.me in the usual way (e.g., `lpr print.me').  If
the underlined text doesn't look right (e.g., shows up with ^H) then
there's a command you can use to strip out the underlining (but I can't
think of it right now).  If you're lucky, the underlining will show up
correctly!

Good luck,
Nancy

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From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 30 Apr 1996 19:19:44 GMT

"J. Partusch" <[email-masked]> writes:
>I'd like to use the "filter" program to sort my mail before it gets to Pine.
>I've read the man for it, but I'm still a little confused about the commands'
>syntax.  If anyone out there who's using this program would be willing to send
>me an anonymized copy of their /.elm/filter-rules, or if someone could point
>me to a website that has an example of this, I'd be quite grateful.

http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/elm/elm.filter.html

Sven

Cc: "J. Partusch" <[email-masked]>

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From: Ashwin Kumar <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 16:50:41 -0700

> >me to a website that has an example of this, I'd be quite grateful.

Consider procmail as a filter - I find it much much easier to use and
more powerful as well (atleast for what I need it). And it can work with
elm or any other mail package.