Subject: Help: Auto-Responding Thingy

From: [email-masked] (Jason E Gross)
Date: 1 Jul 1996 22:53:49 GMT

I would appreciate any help with this topic:
 
I'm currently using Pine v3.91, under a Unix shell account. 
 
I'm trying to start an abuse.recovery mail listing with a select group of 
people through the internet (we'd rather do it from mail than go to a 
news group, as it's too "public" and flaming, etc. - not a 'safe' place).
 
I thought somehow supported the ability to redirect new messages coming 
in to a different folder.  If so, can anyone tell me how?  Simply, if the 
subject of a specific message contains a special string, I'd like it to 
get tossed to a different folder other than INBOX.
 
What I'd *really* like is an ability for it to automatically forward 
those special letters to a distribution list I've created in my address book.
 
Scenario:
   1. A letter from one of the "group" comes into my mailbox.
   2. Pine recognizes it is a "group" letter, and either:
          A. tosses it to a special folder (so that I can bounce it to
             the distribution list in my addressbook manually).
      
                         or
          B. automatically bounces/forwards it to the distribution
             list that's in my addressbook.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I just have to believe this is 
possible, especially if the "vacation" thingy works in Unix.
 
Again, it's Pine v3.91, unix shell environment.  Responses can either be 
here, or via email: [email-masked]
 
Thanks a ton.

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From: Yury Burkatovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 08:49:04 GMT

> here, or via email: [email-masked]
Jason,

This is really possible. You need to have any mail filter program
installed, e.g. procmail. Some simple configuration rules should be
set in order to have different messages either stored in separate folders,
redirected to other users or not stored at any place.

I use procmail in Unix. The following is an excerpt from my .procmailrc file:

# setting of environment variables

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log
VERBOSE=on

# Direct all messages from Arutz 7 into the appropriate folder

:0:
* ^Sender: [email-masked]
Arutz7

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