chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (12/03/88)
[ Followups to comp.mail.misc ] According to kuro%shochu@Sun.COM (Teruhiko Kurosaka): >Does anyone out there knows any way to insert a filter program >in the sendmail daemon so that a piece of e-mail that meets >a certain criteria (such as addressed to an alias but not addressed >to the user directly) goes to a designated folder automatically, or >just be thrown away? This is a common desire, thus the followup here instead of E-Mail. My "deliver" program, recently posted to comp.sources.unix and currently at patch level 6, should satisfy your needs quite nicely. You could use your .forward file to hand all your mail to "deliver": "|/usr/bin/deliver kuro" Then your could write a delivery file that puts each message in a mailbox that depends on the contents of the "To:" line. An example: # /usr/kuro/.deliver # Separate mail into mailboxes, depending on the "To:" address. # Note that multi-line "To:" addresses aren't handled yet. user="$1" to="`sed -n 's/^To: //p' $HEADER`" case "$to" in *junk-alias*) ;; # Throw it away! *foo-alias*) echo "$user":foo-mailbox ;; *bar-alias*) echo "$user":bar-mailbox ;; *) echo "$user":normal-mailbox ;; esac This is just an example. You can get as fancy as you like. If you didn't pick up deliver, check with your site admin; and if he can't help you, write me back and I'll see what I can do. -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers.
msir_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) (12/04/88)
In article <79561@sun.uucp> kuro@sun.UUCP (Teruhiko Kurosaka) writes: > Does anyone out there knows any way to insert a filter program > in the sendmail daemon so that a piece of e-mail that meets > a certain criteria (such as addressed to an alias but not addressed > to the user directly) goes to a designated folder automatically, or > just be thrown away? This does not belong in sendmail, since it is something particular to a single user. (I have redirected followups to comp.mail.misc). The mail program "mush" (Mail Users' SHell), available from comp.sources.unix, will do this for you. -- Mark Sirota msir_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (rochester!ur-cc!msir_ltd)
pat@orac.pgh.pa.us (Pat Barron) (12/05/88)
You can also do this with the "slocal" program that comes with the MH distribution. You filter your mail through it in your .forward file, and it reads a configuration file called ".maildelivery" from your home directory with instructions on what to do with various pieces of mail. --Pat. -- Pat Barron Internet: pat@orac.pgh.pa.us - or - orac!pat@gateway.sei.cmu.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!apexepa!sei!orac!pat - or - ...!pitt!darth!orac!pat
pae@cos.com (Paul A. Ebersman) (12/05/88)
From article <442@ur-cc.UUCP>, by msir_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota): In article <79561@sun.uucp> kuro@sun.UUCP (Teruhiko Kurosaka) writes > Does anyone out there knows any way to insert a filter program > in the sendmail daemon so that a piece of e-mail that meets > a certain criteria (such as addressed to an alias but not addressed > to the user directly) goes to a designated folder automatically, or > just be thrown away? The Elm mail program (currently v2.1 patch level 1) includes a program called "filter" which you put in your .forward file. Filter uses a rule set that you make to filter your mail. It has string matching on To:, From:, and Subject fields and can also key on # of lines. I couldn't handle the amount of mail I get easily without this. --- Paul A. Ebersman @ Corporation for Open Systems pae@cos.COM or pae%cos.com@uunet.uu.net or {uunet, sundc, hadron}!cos!pae ( The difference between practice and theory in practice is always greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory. ) -- Paul A. Ebersman @ Corporation for Open Systems pae@cos.COM or pae%cos.com@uunet.uu.net or {uunet, sundc, hadron}!cos!pae ( The difference between practice and theory in practice is always greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory. )
wyle@solaris.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle) (12/16/88)
I've been running a scheme similar to elm's filter program for a few years which does what you want. It's a bunch of shell scripts and a "rule-base" of pattern-action rules. Incoming mail is .forwarded through the "inference" engine at delivery time. I have an un-published paper about it; the abstract: A rule based system performing user-specific pre-defined actions on electronic mail messages is presented. The system screens, forwards, saves, and processes certain in-coming messages when they arrive at a user's mailbox. The mail filter model, algorithm and implementation are presented with examples illustrating its utility. E-mail me if you want more info. -- -Mitchell F. Wyle wyle@ethz.uucp Institut fuer Informatik wyle@inf.ethz.ch ETH Zentrum / 8092 Zurich, Switzerland +41 1 256 5237