bharat@cf-cm.computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta) (03/12/91)
In article <SQUASH.91Mar10211016@heat.math.ufl.edu> squash@math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King) writes: > Is any talented individual interested in writing a Unix "vacation >mailer" program which > 1) Keeps track of the addresses it responds to, and never responds > to the same address twice. > 2) Takes as an argument a list of address -or better, a regular > expression, of Addresses\Subjects NOT to respond to... such as: > "mailing list" addresses, > MAILER-DAEMON "Returned mail: User unknown" messages, > automatic "I'm not home" messages > 3) Put a marker in the Subject: line, or create a special header > indicating that this mail-reply is automatically generated. > >A fancier version of the program might have > 4) An Address/Subject regular-expression/(file or command) table. >Depending on the Address or Subject matter of the incoming mail, the >VacationProgram automatically files the message in a particular mail >file. Or runs a particular command on the message. (In this instance, >I am thinking of the VacationProgram as being written in Emacs Lisp >and working inside of an Emacs which was left running -probably not >practical unless you have your own workstation.) > I have a particular need for a program like this (due to my impending leave over Easter Break.) I am willing to write a program to handle the above four requests (although I would write it as a csh script for my .forward, not in Emacs Lisp) but I would like to see if anybody else has a package that can handle this. Currently, I have a mail sorter that would handle request #4 quite neatly, and adding numbers 1-3 would be a piece of cake. >PS> I've put Followup:comp.emacs as I'm thinking the above program >might be most easily written in Emacs Lisp. If you feel my choice >inappropriate, I suggest Followup:comp.unix.wizards I think this should stay in comp.unix.wizards. Cheers! Bharat -- | Bharat Mediratta | JANET: bharat@cm.cf.ac.uk | +--------------------+ UUNET: bharat%cm.cf.ac.uk%cunyvm.cuny.edu@uunet.uucp | |On a clear disk... | uk.co: bharat%cm.cf.ac.uk%cunyvm.cuny.edu%uunet.uucp@ukc| |you can seek forever| UUCP: ...!uunet!cunym.cuny.edu!cm.cf.ac.uk!bharat |
mayer@gmdzi.gmd.de (Hans Mayer) (03/27/91)
From article <SQUASH.91Mar10211016@heat.math.ufl.edu>, by squash@math.ufl.edu (Jonathan King):
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...someone is duplicating messages!
- Hans
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