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- From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Enhancement request for ELM filter command
- Keywords: filter
- Message-ID: <14nsc6INNbh7@betty.cs.widener.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 03:11:02 GMT
- References: <1214@ki.com>
- Organization: Widener University Computer Science Dept, Chester PA
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- dwatts@ki.com wrote:
- >An enhancement to filter I would like to see would be to filter on both
- >forms of from lines as well as reply-to. Something like:
- >
- > if ( from: contains "userx" ) then save somefile1
- > if ( from contains "usery" ) then save somefile2
- > if ( reply-to contains "userz" ) then save somefile3
- > if ( fromany contains "userq" ) then save somefile4
-
- Relying on From_ is dangerous, I think. Any number of mailer aberrations
- could mangle `From ' into a nasty twisted figment of its former self.
- Are there no To:, Apprently-To:, or other headers upon which you could rely?
-
- (I second Reply-To:, as well as Cc:.)
-
- --
- Brendan Kehoe, Sun Network Manager brendan@cs.widener.edu
- Widener University Chester, PA
- "Life is a process, and it shouldn't matter what the hardware is."
- -- Chris Langton
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