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- From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Enhancement request for ELM filter command
- Keywords: filter
- Message-ID: <1216@ki.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 17:22:52 GMT
- References: <1215@ki.com> <cos.712183928@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Jul26.231451.9856@DSI.COM>
- Organization: ki Research, Inc
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- In article <1992Jul26.231451.9856@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
- |cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar) writes:
- |>If 2.4 isn't going to have this feature, I'm going to write my own
- |>replacement for filter that works as described above. It probably
- |>won't accept quite as broad a range of syntaxes for filter rules as
- |>elm's filter, 'cause I won't take the trouble to do that, so it would
- |>be better if elm filter added this feature and saved me the work :-)
- |
- |and on another users earlier comment writes...
- |>>Hmm... I'll probably go hack something up while I await the next version
- |>>of ELM.
- |
- |>If you do it before I do, send me a copy. Same to anyone else. I
- |>probably won't be satisfied with anything short of what I described
- |>above, though :-)
- |
- |Ok folks, every one asks for things in Filter for 2.4, but no one volunteers
- |to work on them. Well, I do have something to say about this....
- |
- |Filter is 'dying' because no one wants to work on it and fix/enhance it.
- |Thus everyone complains, and no one does. Fine, I can live with that.
- |But, now someone comments that if we don't do it, they will take the
- |time to 'write it over'.... Well, if you are going to take that time,
- |why not enhance filter?
-
- Someone pointed me to a program called deliver which is supposed to be
- able to do everything I want and lots more. I downloaded a copy from
- UUNET but haven't yet found time to read the documentation. The files
- came with a review by a few people and it said deliver was a very good
- program.
-
- From the README file:
-
- $Id: README,v 1.10 1991/11/21 15:34:13 chip Exp $
- This is the README file for Deliver 2.1.09.
-
-
-
- WHAT IS DELIVER?
-
-
- Deliver allows any user to write a shell script that processes all
- incoming mail messages for that user. The system administrator may
- also install scripts that process all messages.
-
- The output of a script is a list of mail addresses, files and programs
- that should receive the message. It has access to each message as it
- is processed, so the action can be content dependent. The script may
- also generate automatic replies, like the "vacation" program, or pass
- along a modified version of the original message.
-
- Deliver can be used to construct mail-based services (e.g. automatic
- mailing list maintenance). It can also be used to filter mail
- automatically in prearranged ways (e.g. encryption and decryption,
- tossing junk mail, or vacation notices).
-
- Although deliver works best when installed set-user-id root, it can
- perform many of its functions even when installed in the private bin
- directory of a regular user.
-
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