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- From: nigelm@ohm.york.ac.uk (Nigel Metheringham)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Enhancement request for ELM filter command
- Keywords: filter
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.150550.14382@ohm.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 15:05:50 GMT
- References: <1215@ki.com> <cos.712183928@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Jul26.231451.9856@DSI.COM> <1216@ki.com> <1992Jul27.180016.17159@DSI.COM>
- Organization: Electronics Department, University of York, UK
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- In <1992Jul27.180016.17159@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
-
- >dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts) writes:
- >>Someone pointed me to a program called deliver which is supposed to be
- >>able to do everything I want and lots more.
- >> $Id: README,v 1.10 1991/11/21 15:34:13 chip Exp $
-
- >And that chip, is one of our developers for Elm. We have recommended
- >deliver as a replacement for filter for many years now.
-
- Deliver is a great program, but basically requires the person using
- it to be able to write shell scripts etc. There is a gap in the
- market (as seen by me!), for a filter -> deliver conversion program,
- or more generally a macro language or even GUI front-end to deliver
- to make it easy, painless and possibly even error free
- (syntactically at least) to generate deliver control files.
-
- [No I'm not volunteering at present!]
-
- Running onto another thread that has been washing around the group.
- If you are running elm 2.3, receive X400 messages, and get the
- "Folder is corrupt - I can't read it" message (or messages appended
- together), then making deliver your delivery agent will solve these
- problems, since it rewrites problematic From_ lines. However if you
- use From_ addresses for mail routing (ie you have duff s/w :-), then
- this work round will really sink you! It doesn't tackle the problem
- that elm cannot in the current release cope with quoted spaces.
-
- Nigel.
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