Subject: Pine Mail Filters

From: "O'SULLIVAN KEVIN" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:19:15 -0000

Hello ,
I am a computer science student in my final year and I am doing a project on
pine used on redhat Linux v6.0.
One of the specifications of the project is that I set-up mail filters for
pine so that the end user can filter out any mail that they don't perceive
as priority mail into other mail folders. I have tried the using Nancy
Gough's introduction to procmail to establish filters and it seems to work
fine. 
But I am wondering can you incorporate the procmail method directly into the
pine mail program allowing the end user to set-up filters from a menu
provided in pine .
I also want to incorporate the automation of forwarding mail that I have in
my inbox onto other interested groups can this be done using filtering.
Basically I want to add a mail hook that will inspect the sender of the Mail
and then forward that mail onto other users.

Thanking everyone in advance,

Kevin O' Sullivan
Email : [email-masked] 
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From: "Denis N. Antonioli" <[email-masked]>
Date: 9 Feb 2000 18:03:03 +0100

Hi,

> pine mail program allowing the end user to set-up filters from a menu

My .02$.

You don't need to modify pine to achieve this if you take advantage of
the *pipe* capability.
It needs to be enabled in the configurations (enable-unix-pipe-command),
but you could then write a script that reads a mail, extracts the
relevant information and appends the commands to the procmailrc.

It would, then, be nice to have a menu of available pipe commands...

Greetings,
	dna

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