[7380] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Your OLC question about "mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Mon Oct 4 05:20:23 1999
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To: hilstad@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:45:59 -0400."
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 05:20:17 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
hilstad@mit.edu asked olc:
>
>I am using pine (sipb) for checking email, and I want to implement a
>mail filter so that mail with a certain subject line is automatically
>saved in a certain folder. Is this possible? I know that it is not
>part of pine's functionality, but is there some other program that is
>compatible with pine that can do this?
Unfortunately, there's no easy way to set up mail sorting, and it
is easy to lose some of your mail while trying to set up some
sort of filtering system.
I use MH and /usr/athena/etc/slocal to sort my mail.
Many people use emacs gnus to read (and sort) their mail.
In theory, it should be possible to sort mail and then read it
with pine, but I don't know someone who does this. (There are
tools in the sipb locker which could be used for this: procmail,
and helper programs of fetchmail and formail.)
Sorry that this wasn't more helpful,
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
