Subject: Filters in pine

From: [email-masked] (Breakdown)
Date: 3 May 1996 02:55:46 -0400

Hi there .. I would 'kill' :-) to find out how I can do filtering in pine?
For instance, I want all my mail that comes in AND has the word "pine" on 
the subject line, to go into a folder called Pine... Or every email that 
came from a certain sender to be put into a different folder and then 
forwarded/bounced back/deleted/whatever....

What can someone recommend to make Pine able to do these things? It is a 
great mail prog, but it still lacks some powerful features that for 
instance, elm had(filtering)... Anyone gimme a hand out there? Thanks in 
advance...

Martin

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 10:16:23 -0400

On 3 May 1996, Breakdown wrote:

> [...]
> instance, elm had(filtering) [...]

    Pine has no built-in capability to do these things.  However, for
mail filtering, if elm's 'filter' is still available to you on your
system, you can still use it, and Pine will cheerfully use the results. 
(I don't know about 'kill', as I am not familiar with filter.)
Otherwise, on Un*x systems procmail can be used for both filtering and
kill function.

    If you have a WWW browser, you can get more information by browsing
my home page and following the link to Nancy McGough's pages.  You will
have to follow a few more links, as I do not have direct href's
available, but Nancy has a lot of good material on mail processing.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 4 May 1996 01:12:01 GMT

Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>:
> for mail filtering, if elm's 'filter' is still available to you on your

For more info read page
	http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/elm/elm.filter.html

> (I don't know about 'kill', as I am not familiar with filter.)

Killing is done with the "filter action" 'delete':
	if (condition) then delete

> on Un*x systems procmail can be used for both filtering and kill function.

If you need to get fancy then procmail is what I recommend.

Sven

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