Subject: Automated List Server for Pine.

From: Franklin Wayne Poley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 20:52:54 -0700 (PDT)

Do you think it would be possible to write a sub-program for Pine which 
would read incoming mail, recognize Distribution List names from the 
subject line and automatically mail out to all on those Dist. lists? I 
have been told Eudora Pro and Pegasus have similar features.
-W. Poley.

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From: Dean Pentcheff <[email-masked]>
Date: 23 Aug 1996 04:53:46 -0400

> have been told Eudora Pro and Pegasus have similar features.

The program exists, but it will never be a sub-program of Pine.  Pine
is a "mail user agent", meaning it's a program you fire off to read
and write your mail (and news).  It does not redistribute mail.  Even
when you send mail with Pine, it just hands off the completed mail
message to another program for processing and delivery.

What you want could pretty easily be achieved using "procmail", a
commonly installed (on Unix systems, anyway) mail processing program.
You can get some information on it (and on mail processing in general)
at: <URL:http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/>.

-Dean
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