Subject: Filter

From: Myron Wayne Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 12:15:47 -0500 (CDT)

I use the elm filter feature with pine to filter incomming e-mail into 
several different folders.  

My problem is that I cannot tell when I have new mail because it is 
automatically moved from my INBOX to the folders I have specified.

Is there a way for me to have pine indicate that new mail has been 
delivered and in to what folder it was placed??
o 

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+ Myron Wayne Jones                       +
+ email: [email-masked]          +
+ homepage: http://www.mtsu.edu/~chem000c +
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+             Murfreesboro, TN 37132 USA  +
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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 20:40:42 -0400

> delivered and in to what folder it was placed??

    I am not absolutely certain on this due to changes that may have
been made in the recent new versions of Pine, but I think that when you
filter incoming mail into various folders, you get a notification only
if you just so happen to have a particular folder open at the time a 
new message is placed into it.

    One thing I have that I make freely available may help some.  I
have a Un*x shell script which in turn calls a Perl script to sniff in
all of the incoming mail folders I have defined and display a count of
how many messages are in each one by name.  In Un*x Pine (unless it has
been turned off) you can just Ctrl-Z to suspend Pine, run the script to
check your mail folders, and then 'fg' to re-enter Pine.

    You can get the scripts by browsing my WWW home page.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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