Subject: display-filters

From: Elijah Manor <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 12:43:31 -0500 (CDT)

sorry, my previos question was a tad ambiguous.  in the setup
configuration of pine there exists two fields...

display-filters:
sending-filters:

i used the ? help manual to learn about these two features, but i was
confused at how to procede.  i understand that these fields filter the
actual text in e-mail instead of divertin~ them to separate folders.  they
probably could more, but i was curious if anyone has used / or knows how
to use the <trigger> <command> <argument> syntax for these filters.  i
know about procmail and im in the process of installin~ it, however, im
interested in pines unique text filterin~.  hey, it exists...  why not use
it? 

-elijah-

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 30 Sep 1997 20:20:15 +0200

>> "EM" == Elijah Manor <[email-masked]> writes:

EM> display-filters: sending-filters:

EM> i know about procmail and im in the process of installin~ it,
EM> however, im interested in pines unique text filterin~.  hey, it
EM> exists...  why not use it?

I sense a fundamental misunderstanding here... You can only use Pine's
filters to "do" something with a message *within* pine, i.e. add or
substract or alter something. Typical examples: pgp and random
signatures. The thing is that you can use these interactively,
e.g. pipe the message through fortune -o, rot 13 and then pgp-encrypt
it - interactively. If that's what you want - good. But this
"filtering" is entirely different from what procmail does... I
guess... I never understood procmail. Duhh...

Later,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO.