Subject: Q: can you filter sent mail?

From: Kelly Martin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:03:47 -0600 (MDT)

Apologies if this is in the man pages, but I didn't see it in the FAQ.

I'm the new moderator for a busy mailing list, and I'd prefer not to have
all my approval/reject mails ending up in my sent-mail folder. It makes it
harder to look through my sent-mail folder for real mail that I've sent
out. Is there a way to filter sent mail such that my request to, say,
<[email-masked]> gets deleted instead of filed away in
sent-mail?

Do I setup a 'specific' filter, select 'sent-mail' as the folder, filter
based on a To: field and then perform a 'delete' action? I'm cautious to
try this without first asking the pine-info list, as I don't want to lose
any real sent mail.

I'm running pine 4.55 and love it. My hands never leave the keyboard in
pine, unlike with stupid Windows clients like Outlook Express.

Cheers,
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Kelly Martin <[email-masked]>
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From: Birl <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:24:45 -0400 (EDT)

Kelly:  Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:03:47 -0600 (MDT)
Kelly:  From: Kelly Martin <[email-masked]>
Kelly:  To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
Kelly:  Subject: Q: can you filter sent mail?
Kelly:
Kelly:  Apologies if this is in the man pages, but I didn't see it in the FAQ.
Kelly:
Kelly:  I'm the new moderator for a busy mailing list, and I'd prefer not to have
Kelly:  all my approval/reject mails ending up in my sent-mail folder. It makes it
Kelly:  harder to look through my sent-mail folder for real mail that I've sent
Kelly:  out. Is there a way to filter sent mail such that my request to, say,
Kelly:  <[email-masked]> gets deleted instead of filed away in
Kelly:  sent-mail?
Kelly:
Kelly:  Do I setup a 'specific' filter, select 'sent-mail' as the folder, filter
Kelly:  based on a To: field and then perform a 'delete' action? I'm cautious to
Kelly:  try this without first asking the pine-info list, as I don't want to lose
Kelly:  any real sent mail.
Kelly:
Kelly:  I'm running pine 4.55 and love it. My hands never leave the keyboard in
Kelly:  pine, unlike with stupid Windows clients like Outlook Express.
Kelly:
Kelly:  Cheers,
Kelly:  --
Kelly:  Kelly Martin <[email-masked]>

Are we talking PC-Pine or UNIX?

For UNIX, there's always procmail.  The advantage being that procmail will
filter all the time, whereas Pine filters while currently running.

 Scott Birl
 Senior Systems Administrator            Computer Services   Temple University
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From: daniel lance herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:21:54 -0400 (EDT)

> <[email-masked]> gets deleted instead of filed away in

This sounds like an application for Roles
(M C R R) - create a moderator role and use it for
servicing the list and one of the things you
define for the role is an Fcc that is different
from the usual. You probably can get some of the
rest of the Moderator things to be done
automatically by the Role.

dan

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From: daniel lance herrick <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:48:08 -0400 (EDT)

> (M C R R) - create a moderator role and use it for

That's (M S R R)

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 18:17:57 -0700 (PDT)

*** Kelly Martin ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) I'm the new moderator for a busy mailing list,

Congratulations

:)  and I'd prefer not to have all my approval/reject mails ending up in
:) my sent-mail folder. It makes it harder to look through my sent-mail
:) folder for real mail that I've sent out. Is there a way to filter sent
:) mail such that my request to, say, <[email-masked]>
:) gets deleted instead of filed away in sent-mail?
:)
:) Do I setup a 'specific' filter, select 'sent-mail' as the folder, filter
:) based on a To: field and then perform a 'delete' action? I'm cautious to
:) try this without first asking the pine-info list, as I don't want to lose
:) any real sent mail.

The answer is yes. That's what you are supposed to do. Notice that there
is a "Add extra header" for filtering, if your approval messages have
extra headers.

Test your filters in a copy of the sent-mail folder, or test them by
making them look in different colors in the index.

  Good luck.

Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Gopi Sundaram <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:25:28 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Kelly Martin wrote:

> Is there a way to filter sent mail such that my request to, say,
> <[email-masked]> gets deleted instead of filed away
> in sent-mail?

Do you want to save your approvals at all?

In the addressbook entry for that address, set the Fcc to an empty
string, that is, "" so that it doesn't get copied to sent-mail.

If you want to save approvals, then set the Fcc to some mailbox name.

-- 
Gopi Sundaram
http://www.zrox.net/Mail/Pine/