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000016_icon-group-sender _Wed May 6 12:36:37 1998.msg
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From: eka@corp.cirrus.com (Eka Laiman)
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Subject: Re: AI use for Icon
To: tmurray@primary.net
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 09:35:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
In-Reply-To: <354FC528.4D86@kc-primary.net> from "Terry Murray" at May 5, 98 08:04:44 pm
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Terry wrote:
> I'm writing a program with icon that reads an email message
> and determines the who, what, when, where and by whom. At least
> that is what I am trying to do.
> ...... edited ....
I have to do "incoming mail filtering" myself. In my case, due to
my belonging to certain kind of SIG (Special Interest Group), it
is quite common for me to receive 50+ mails a day. This large number
of incoming mail can potentially shield me from "business" related
mails which require my attention. To avoid this, every incoming mail
will be automatically be passed through a "mail filter". If the
mail comes the mentioned SIG, they will automatically be accumulated
in a "special mail folder" without notifying me of their arrivals;
otherwise, the mail will be passed through just like normal mails
that do not go through the filter.
If you are working with UNIX or Linux, the best way to do this kind
of filtering is through "procmail" which is well documented. You can
do a search in the internet for various pages explaining how this
works, a tutorial of using this facility is also available.
Since procmail pass the mail as a "stream of text" and the blank line
separate the mail header from the body of the mail, you can easily
do filtering based on "content" or "mail header". In fact the
list server program known as "majordomo" works this way. The method
used is to "hash" (icon's implementation is through "table") each
field in the mail header.
-eka-