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- Path: sparky!uunet!ki.com!dwatts
- From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Enhancement request for ELM filter command
- Keywords: filter
- Message-ID: <1215@ki.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 13:21:02 GMT
- References: <1214@ki.com> <14nsc6INNbh7@betty.cs.widener.edu>
- Organization: ki Research, Inc
- Lines: 31
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- In article <14nsc6INNbh7@betty.cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
- |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:.)
-
-
- Alas no, there is nothing in the email other than this line to identify that
- it came from the mailing list echoer. I think I'll ask if they could add
- an X-xxxxxx header with the mailing list name to the email that gets echoed
- by the mailing list. Then all I need is filter support to check for
- arbritrary X-xxx headers :-)
-
- Hmm... I'll probably go hack something up while I await the next version
- of ELM.
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