aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug) (02/20/91)
I'm trying to write a filter rule to move messages of this form:
Received: by shrike.Austin.Lockheed.COM (4.1/1.49); Tue, 19 Feb 91 14:39:12 CST
From: Daniel A Haug <aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>
Message-Id: <9102192039.AA10872@shrike.Austin.Lockheed.COM>
Subject: news status
To: aihaug (Daniel A Haug)
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 91 14:39:11 CDT
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into a specific folder. Here is the rule I wrote to try to do this:
if [from = "Daniel A Haug" and subject = "news status"] then
save "/usr6/aihaug/Mail/news-status"
Its not working. filter -s says that all messages are being processed
by the default rule. filter -r says:
Rule 1: if (from = "Daniel A Haug" and subject = "news status") then
Save /usr6/aihaug/Mail/news-status
Here is my .forward file:
"| /usr7/pd/bin/filter -vo /tmp/aihaug.filter_errors"
My filter errors file has one each of this line:
filter (aihaug): Mailing message to aihaug
What am I doing wrong? I'm using Elm2.2 PL16.
Another question about filters: as soon as I started using this,
I no longer get biff-type notification at my terminal when new
mail has arrived. Is there a way to still get notified for most
of my mail?
thanks,
dan haug--
Internet: haug@austin.lockheed.com
UUCP: ut-emx!lad-shrike!aihaug
Phone: (512) 386-4634navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) (02/20/91)
In article <490@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug) writes: > >I'm trying to write a filter rule to move messages of this form: > > Received: by shrike.Austin.Lockheed.COM (4.1/1.49); Tue, 19 Feb 91 14:39:12 CST > From: Daniel A Haug <aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> > Message-Id: <9102192039.AA10872@shrike.Austin.Lockheed.COM> > Subject: news status > To: aihaug (Daniel A Haug) > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 91 14:39:11 CDT > ... > >into a specific folder. Here is the rule I wrote to try to do this: > >if [from = "Daniel A Haug" and subject = "news status"] then > save "/usr6/aihaug/Mail/news-status" > do this: if (from contains "aihung@wherever" and subject contains "news status" ) then save "/whereever" this worked fine for me -- just dont use "Daniel A Hung " but the username instead. Your .forward file is fine. > >Another question about filters: as soon as I started using this, >I no longer get biff-type notification at my terminal when new >mail has arrived. Is there a way to still get notified for most >of my mail? I played around with this one for a while. First of I am using Elm 2.3 and I am running bash (yeah bash!) as my shell but this should not make a differ- ence in the following description. As far as biff is concerned, I don't think you can get it to look anywhere but the usual place to notify you about mail. Therefore, I used newmail-- which you should have if you are running 2.2. I did this: I changed my MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/navarra:/home/u3/navarra/Mail and put a line like /usr/local/bin/newmail $HOME/Mail in my .bash_profile so newmail knows to check this directory (because that is where filtered mail is kept) Now when I sent myself mail using a filter rule which saved mail in $HOME/Mail/test I DID NOT get notified of new mail!! SO what I did was to include the file test in my MAILPATH and then i was notified that I got mail. The only problem is that as far as I know, you would have to specify a file for each message. I could be wrong on this but if anyone knows for sure, please answer this. Just remember that if you try this, the default check on newmail is 60 sec so you can either change the interval (which I recommend if you are going to try it). Good luck -- trust me with a little tinkering it works!! ---------------------- from the lab of the MaD ScIenTISt navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu > >thanks, > >dan haug-- >Internet: haug@austin.lockheed.com >UUCP: ut-emx!lad-shrike!aihaug >Phone: (512) 386-4634
navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) (02/20/91)
> Now when I sent myself mail using a filter rule which saved mail >in $HOME/Mail/test I DID NOT get notified of new mail!! SO what I did was well now that I have played with this a bit more, perhaps you don't need to specify an exact filename for newmail. I think I originally got my MAILPATH wrong. So just make sure your MAILPATH variable is set up right to check all mail directories. My bad -- but this just makes the solution that much better :-) if anyone else has success with this doing it a different (or easier) way, let me know. > >---------------------- >from the lab of the MaD ScIenTISt >navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu >
rudolf@curano.imp.com (Rudolf Kuenzli) (02/20/91)
In <490@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM> aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug) writes: >if [from = "Daniel A Haug" and subject = "news status"] then > save "/usr6/aihaug/Mail/news-status" I did run in the same problem, when I started with filter first. Anyway, filter in your case is testing 'From:' if it's round else it will test 'From'. You are probably running a sophisticated mail system and therefor 'From:' ist checked. "Daniel A Haug" shows up in the 'From' line and not in the 'From:'. And that makes the result of the test false. Trye once with: (from = "haug@austin" and subject = "news status") ? save .... and test it. In my case it did work. >Another question about filters: as soon as I started using this, >I no longer get biff-type notification at my terminal when new >mail has arrived. Is there a way to still get notified for most >of my mail? Sorry, I don't know anything about biff... -- Don Curano The Magician In real life: Rudolf Kuenzli Mail Address: rudolf@curano.imp.com Employer: What's that good for? Occupation: Any need for?
aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug) (02/22/91)
First, thanks for all of the responses to my filter rules problem. Now my rules are correctly working. Unfortunately, there is something happening for the "default" case. The rest of my mail now seems to get appended into a single message. That is, say I have received 5 new messages, when invoking elm to read them, they all show up in one message. Any ideas? I looked at the mail spool file, and the headers seem to be the same as they were before. This only starts happening when I turn on the filter process (I guess via the .forward file). I've included sample headers from before I starting using the filter program, and after. Whereas my /usr/spool/mail file contains several messages, only the messages received since using the filter program are "concatenated" together. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. thanks, dan haug Internet: haug@austin.lockheed.com UUCP: ut-emx!lad-shrike!aihaug Phone: (512) 386-4634 ==================== header before after filter rules ================== From milano!root Mon Feb 18 11:30:31 1991 Received: by shrike.Austin.Lockheed.COM (4.1/1.49); Mon, 18 Feb 91 11:30:29 CST Date: Mon, 18 Feb 91 11:29:45 -0600 From: Super-user Milano <milano!milano!root> Message-Id: <9102181729.AA07415@milano.sw.mcc.com> Received: by milano.sw.mcc.com (5.61/STP1.56) id AA07415; Mon, 18 Feb 91 11:29:45 -0600 Apparently-To: lad-shrike!lad-shrike!news Status: O remote execution [uucp job shrikeNed69 (2/18-11:29:43)] rnews exited normally ==================== header before using filter rules ================== Received: by shrike.Austin.Lockheed.COM (4.1/1.49); Thu, 21 Feb 91 15:02:00 CST Date: Thu, 21 Feb 91 14:56:21 -0600 From: Super-user Milano <milano!milano!root> Message-Id: <9102212056.AA27693@milano.sw.mcc.com> Received: by milano.sw.mcc.com (5.61/STP1.56) id AA27693; Thu, 21 Feb 91 14:56:21 -0600 Apparently-To: lad-shrike!lad-shrike!news remote execution [uucp job shrikeNf072 (2/21-14:56:17)] rnews exited normally =====================================================================-- Internet: haug@austin.lockheed.com UUCP: ut-emx!lad-shrike!aihaug Phone: (512) 386-4634
protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) (02/23/91)
From article <492@shrike.AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM>, by aihaug@AUSTIN.LOCKHEED.COM (Daniel A Haug): > > The rest of my > mail now seems to get appended into a single message. That is, > say I have received 5 new messages, when invoking elm to read > them, they all show up in one message. Any ideas? I looked > at the mail spool file, and the headers seem to be the same > as they were before. This only starts happening when I turn > on the filter process (I guess via the .forward file). This has also happened to me. The problem is with filter. If you are getting multiple messages simultaneously and have multiple sendmail/filter processes running at the same time, it sometimes causes your mail spool file to get corrupted. I am using Smail3.1.19 and Elm2.3.11. I had to add 2 lines of code to the filter source, and all my problems went away. I once tried to get this "feature" fixed, but it requires more than 2 lines of code to work in a networked environment. On the other hand, if you are using a stand-alone machine and would like more info I would be glad to assist. -- Mike Protofanousis msp@pronet.chi.il.us uunet!motcid!protofan