Subject: Re: How to forward and filter?

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 20:18:58 -0400

On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Malte Stien wrote:

> 1. can anybody tell us how to filter incoming mails? Is there a specific 
> file or do we need a special external program? When true, which one can 
> we use?

    Pine does not filter incoming mail itself.  You have to use some
external program which filters the mail as part of the delivery process
before Pine opens it.  You did not say what system you are using Pine
on -- Unix, VMS, DOS, etc.  It makes a difference.  If you are using
Unix, probably the two most common programs are procmail and filter.

> 2. how can you forward mail, so that all mail one person is getting are 
> automaticly forwarded to another user-address on the net? I've got two 
> hosts and I want to get all messages on both hosts.

    Again, it make a difference what system Pine is running on, which
you did not specify.  If you are using Unix, there is a .forward (note
the leading period) file you can create, or procmail could do it for
you.

    If you have a WWW browser, browse my home page, follow the link to
the Pine section, and take the link to Nancy McGough's pages.  She has
a lot of valuable information on mail filtering and processing.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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From: Malte Stien <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:34:55 +0200

Hi,

Thank you. Bye Marcus & Malte.

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From: Rudolf Kompf <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 13:42:10 +0200 (MET DST)

-> Hi,
-> 
-> 1. can anybody tell us how to filter incoming mails? Is there a specific 
-> file or do we need a special external program? When true, which one can 
-> we use?
-> 
-> 2. how can you forward mail, so that all mail one person is getting are 
-> automaticly forwarded to another user-address on the net? I've got two 
-> hosts and I want to get all messages on both hosts.
-> 
-> Thank you. Bye Marcus & Malte.
-> 
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-> Technische Universitaet Berlin, Technische Informatik, [email-masked]
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->    ...das Mensaessen schlaegt schon Wellen...
-> 	...vom Liebesspiel der Salmonellen...	    (Norbert u. d. Feiglinge)
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-> 

Try one of the packages 'procmail' or 'filter' (filter is part of elm).

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