wand@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Mitchell Wand) (09/06/89)
Has anyone out there written any E-Lisp code to automatically look at incoming mail and distribute it among different mail files? This would approximate a personal bulletin board system. Ideally, such a system would do the following: (1) when mail is read, file it "appropriately", based perhaps on an association list using some regexps (easily user-modifiable), and (2) allow the user to find out which of his or her mail files contain unread messages. I know there are fancy systems out there to do this sort of thing (eg the Information Lens), but GNU Emacs seems to be a good home for at least a simple version. Any ideas? Mitchell Wand College of Computer Science Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue #161CN Boston, MA 02115 CSNet: wand@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu
wand@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Mitchell Wand) (09/07/89)
[This is a retransmission; I don't think it got out to the whole list the first time --mw] Has anyone out there written any E-Lisp code to automatically look at incoming mail and distribute it among different mail files? This would approximate a personal bulletin board system. Ideally, such a system would do the following: (1) when mail is read, file it "appropriately", based perhaps on an association list using some regexps (easily user-modifiable), and (2) allow the user to find out which of his or her mail files contain unread messages. I know there are fancy systems out there to do this sort of thing (eg the Information Lens), but GNU Emacs seems to be a good home for at least a simple version. Any ideas? Mitchell Wand College of Computer Science Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue #161CN Boston, MA 02115 CSNet: wand@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu
jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) (09/07/89)
In article <8909061728.AA01804@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU> wand@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Mitchell Wand) writes:
[This is a retransmission; I don't think it got out to the whole list the
first time --mw]
It did.
(1) when mail is read, file it "appropriately", based perhaps on an
association list using some regexps (easily user-modifiable), and
I would suggest trying the "vm" mail reading package. It has the ability
to file messages based upon regexp matching within the message headers.
(2) allow the user to find out which of his or her mail files contain unread
messages.
Do you mean the messages would be filed before they were read the first
time?
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...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbwrlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) (09/08/89)
In article <37628@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, jbw@bucsf (Joe Wells) writes:
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] (2) allow the user to find out which of his or her mail files contain unread
] messages.
]
]Do you mean the messages would be filed before they were read the first
]time?
There's a package called pmd (Personal Mail Daemon) that does just this.
It was originally developed by Jim Aspnes, then at Project Athena and
now at CMU, and has since been modified slightly by me. It's available
via anonymous FTP from think.com (131.239.2.1) as /pmdc.tar.Z.
It consists of the rule compiler (you write a rules file that tells pmd
what to do, and it compiles it into a binary executable), the runtime
support, and some documentation.
Use of this program is advantageous for rmail users, as it can be
configured to deliver mail in babyl format rather than mail format,
which is faster and less prone to errors.
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harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)876-1111kayvan@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) (09/08/89)
In article <8909060213.AA19939@corwin.CCS.Northeastern.EDU> wand@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Mitchell Wand) writes: > From: wand@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Mitchell Wand) > Newsgroups: comp.emacs > Date: 6 Sep 89 02:13:07 GMT > Organization: BBN news/mail gateway > Lines: 23 > > Has anyone out there written any E-Lisp code to automatically look at incoming > mail and distribute it among different mail files? This would approximate a > personal bulletin board system. > > Ideally, such a system would do the following: > VM does this. It's great stuff!! ---Kayvan -- Kayvan Sylvan @ Transact Software, Inc. -*- Los Altos, CA (415) 961-6112 Internet: kayvan@Transact.COM -*- UUCP: ...!{apple,pyramid,mips}!mrspoc!kayvan