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- From: jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (John Price-Wilkin)
- Subject: piping to a filter
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.144107.27409@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Keywords: .maildelivery, slocal, pipe
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:41:07 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- I'm trying to have mail with a specified subject piped through a filter
- that removes mail headers, names the file the contents of the subject
- line, and puts the message in a directory based on month and date. I've
- written the filter in perl (iau-er) and tested it extensively. I've got a
- working .maildelivery, which I've been able to use to save messages
- matching the criteria to specified directories (but not going through the
- filter). When I try to put everything together, the mail disappears
- mysteriously. The .maildelivery file looks like this:
-
- Subject FOO | A "/home/jpw/bin/iau-er"
- default - > ? /usr/spool/mail/jpw
-
- If I do an slocal -verbose, I get:
-
- slocal -user $USER -verbose < foo-message
- delivering to pipe "/home/jpw/bin/iau-er", wins.
-
- I also did a debug, and while I don't really know how to read its
- responses, nothing looked striking.
-
- Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm afraid it's awfully
- simple-minded, but I'm stumped. Incidentally, I'm using MH 6.7 "UCI
- Version" on the NeXT.
-
- John Price-Wilkin
- jpw@Virginia.EDU
- jpw@sansfoy.lib.virginia.edu (NeXTMail)
-