rahard@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) (11/25/90)
Is there a way I can use "Reply-To" and "Sender" fields with "filter" ? I'd like to check these fields and perform different actions. -- budi -- Budi Rahardjo <rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <rahard@ee.umanitoba.ca> <rahard@budi.ee.umanitoba.ca> Electrical Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada
navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John 'tms' Navarra) (04/24/91)
I have a question about filters. We have a system wide alias 'cons'
on our system and there are a whole bunch of names associated with it.
Now recently, someone sent a message to cons, name, name2, name3, etc
and I did not get the letter.
I wonder if the problem could be because the To: line was too long to be
filtered or if a problem would arise if two separate conditions were fulfilled
in the To: line?
either way, I didn't receive the message -- and it was not recorded in my
filter.log.
Any ideas?
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navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.eduanoosh@cray.com (Anoosh Mostaghimi) (05/21/91)
I need a set of filter rule(s) or a clever "execute" to be able to based on a given "To:" field of a mailing list to *bounce* a copy of that email to several other folks and still keep a copy of that email in my /usr/spool/mail. Thanks for your help|suggestion. --- Anoosh Mostaghimi anoosh@cray.com || ...!uunet!cray!anoosh
das@trac2000.ueci.com (David Snyder) (05/23/91)
In article <225835.4481@timbuk.cray.com>, anoosh@cray.com (Anoosh Mostaghimi) writes: > > I need a set of filter rule(s) or a clever "execute" to be able > to based on a given "To:" field of a mailing list to *bounce* a > copy of that email to several other folks and still keep a copy > of that email in my /usr/spool/mail. > Sounds like you want "forwardcopy". Here --------- Snip Here --------- Snip Here --------- Snip Here --------- Snip # forwardcopy # forwards a COPY of mail to others # usage: forwardcopy mailbox forwarder(s)... MAILBOX=$1; shift FORWARDERS=$* TMPMAIL=/tmp/tmpmail$$ # Put mail in a tmp file and extract the subject cat >$TMPMAIL set `grep "^Subject:" $TMPMAIL`; shift; SUBJECT="$* (fwd)" # Copy contents of TMPMAIL to mailbox cat $TMPMAIL >>/usr/mail/$MAILBOX # Send contents of TMPMAIL to FORWARDERS elm -s "$SUBJECT" $FORWARDERS <$TMPMAIL # Clean up when done rm -f $TMPMAIL Here --------- Snip Here --------- Snip Here --------- Snip Here --------- Snip DAS -- David A. Snyder @ UE&C - Catalytic in Philadelphia, PA UUCP: ..!uunet!trac2000!das INTERNET: das@trac2000.ueci.com
johnr@lotus.lotus.com (John Rouillard) (05/24/91)
In article <225835.4481@timbuk.cray.com>, anoosh@cray.com (Anoosh Mostaghimi) writes: |> |> I need a set of filter rule(s) or a clever "execute" to be able |> to based on a given "To:" field of a mailing list to *bounce* a |> copy of that email to several other folks and still keep a copy |> of that email in my /usr/spool/mail. This won't *bounce* the message, filter only handles forwarding as far as I can tell, but if forwarding is good enough - try something along the following lines: RULE 1: if ( To = "FTest" and from = "johnr") then save "/usr/spool/mail/fooble" RULE 2: if ( To = "FTest" ) then forward "frisbele@einstein myself@einstein others@anywhere.usa.com" The first time through, the message isn't from you, so rule 2 is invoked sending the mail to the interested parties, including yourself. The next time through, you did send (forward) the message so rule 1 is invoked, and the message is saved. This works OK unless you originated the message, in which case it only gets saved not forwarded. Rule 1 MUST come before rule 2 otherwise, you will never save the message, and will create an inifinite loop of forwarded messages. I don't acutally use the configuration above, I use the subject line instead of the to line, and save it in a file that isn't my spool file. Obviously, this won't work if the message is bounced, since rule 1 wouldn't be executed. If you had a reflector that would bounce the message, then a simple shell script that has: cat - > /tmp/$$ as its first line to capture the message, and then proceeds with: cat /tmp/$$ >> /usr/spool/mail/fooble boing azzy, bazzy, grumpy@any < /tmp/$$ where boing is your mail bouncer. I am not sure if you could write a script for elm and submit it by redirecting stdin, but that may work, to create a mail bouncer. Just invoke elm as "elm -f /tmp/$$" and the input script would be along the lines of: b<to_names_here>y On more or less the same note, does anybody have patches that allow multiple actions to be tagged to the same pattern. Then this would be a simple case of if (subject = "Forward Test" ) then do save "/usr/spool/mail/fooble" forward "frisbee@einstein others@anywhere.usa.com" execute boing to@these.people etc@you.get.the.idea done or something like this. It is really useful to be able to save a message and run it through a program as well. Ideally a bounce primative would work well. On a completely different note: Why does filter not like strings with "_"'s in them. It seems to use '_' as a delimiter of some sort. I fixed this in my filter by using ^A instead of '_' as a delimeter, but I don't think that is a good solution. -- John
itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) (05/27/91)
anoosh@cray.com (Anoosh Mostaghimi) writes: >I need a set of filter rule(s) or a clever "execute" to be able >to based on a given "To:" field of a mailing list to *bounce* a >copy of that email to several other folks and still keep a copy >of that email in my /usr/spool/mail. As much as I love Elm and its buddies, this is not something that is reasonable for a Mail User Agent, even one with healthy utilities like Elm's. Rather, it makes sense for the Mail Transport Agent to handle stuff like this. Using either Smail or Sendmail, you can create an alias for the "To:" field and have it automatically route the mail to as large a list of people as you wish. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ : Steven List @ Transact Software, Inc. :^>~ : : Chairman, Unify User Group of Northern California : : itkin@Transact.COM :