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- Delivery of Messages
- ====================
-
- Introduction
- ============
-
- This section describes how Pluto delivers incoming messages to a Box.
-
- Note:
- 1. Filters can be set up to change the delivery of messages to boxes.
-
- 2. If an incoming message is delivered to the Bin box, either by its
- normal delivery assignment, or by the use of a Filter, then it is
- discarded completely. It does not appear in the Bin box.
-
- News
- ====
-
- Each News article is assigned to one newsgroup.
-
- In the case of a cross-posted news article which has been posted to more
- than one group, it will be assigned to the one which is highest up
- Pluto's NewsGroups List and which is marked as active. If none are
- active, then the highest non-active group will be chosen.
-
- The article is put into the Box which is specified for that newsgroup in
- its NewsGroup Edit dialogue.
-
- If the Crossposts option is set in Preferences->News, then a separate
- copy of the article will be made for each of its newsgroups. Each copy
- will be in placed the Box which has been specified for that newsgroup.
-
- Mail
- ====
-
- Mail delivery works by looking at the email addresses which you set up
- for each of your Users in the Users List.
-
- Choose Lists->Users from Pluto's icon bar menu to show the Users List
- and adjust-double-click on a User to open its User Edit dialogue. The
- User Id and Domain fields give the User's email address. For example,
- if your address is
- john@somewhere.demon.co.uk
- then it should be set to:
- User Id john
- Domain somewhere.demon.co.uk
-
- For each email message which Pluto receives, it looks for a match for any
- of the emails addresses for your users against those present in the To:,
- Cc:, and Envelope-To: fields (in that order) of the message. If a match
- is found, then the message is assigned to the "In Box" which has been
- specified for that User.
-
- If no match is found, the addresses in the message are matched against
- those set up for Mailing Lists (see below).
-
- If still no match is found, the message is put into the Box for your
- first User in the Users List.
-
- Mailing Lists
- =============
-
- Mailing Lists are set up in Pluto's NewsGroups list, in a similar way to
- newsgroups, but with the Mail List option ticked. The mailing list's
- address is prefixed by "mail." For example the Ovation Pro mailing list,
- whose address is
- ovationp-l@risc.demon.co.uk
- is set up in the NewsGroups List as a "newsgroup" with the name:
- mail.ovationp-l
- or
- mail.ovationp-l@risc
- if you need to match more of the address to distinguish between two
- mailing lists.
-
- If this name matches the first part of an address in the message, then it
- is assigned to the Box which has been given for that mailing list (in the
- NewsGroup Edit dialogue).
-
- Filters
- =======
-
- Whatever Box a message has been assigned to as described above, this may
- be changed by the action of a Filter. Filters are set up in the Filters
- List which is reached from Lists->Filters from Pluto's icon bar menu.
- A Filter can be set to operate on Mail, News, or Mail List articles.
-
- NOTE, if a Filter is set to assign certain messages to the Bin box, then
- the message is discarded completely. It does not appear in the Bin box.
- If you want to see which messages have been binned by the Filter, assign
- them instead to a Junk box, and give that Box a short expiry period.
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