[comp.mail.elm] OKAY SO I'M STUPID BUT HELP ...

mwitten@ut-emx.cc.utexas.edu (matthew witten) (02/19/91)

I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of ELM and one of the things
I'd like to do is to use the filter capability to read the subject
headers on my incoming mail and respond according to some preset set of
directions. The filter directions that I have are so obscure that my
onsight CRAY and systems engineers couldn't figure them out. Can someone
help me get started with FILTERS.

Item 2. I want to set up a file, let's call it conference.aliases .
In this file is a list of e-mail addresses of people who need to be
contacted concerning a particular conference. Assume the list has a large
amount of names so that I don't want it to be part of my regular e-mail
alias list. How can I get ELM to read and to send a message to an alternate
alias list? Further, how can I do it so that it does it by BCC?

Item 3. I have the various off the net documents about ELM. Is there anything
more comprehensive? If so, how do I get my hands on it?

Item 4. Thanks to all those who responded to my last call for help on the
alias table size. We have fixed that by, as everyone suggested, rebuilding
ELM with a larger alias table size.

Thanks to everyone, 

Matthew Witten, Ph.D.
Associate Director, UT SYSTEM CHPC

M.WITTEN@HERMES.CHPC.UTEXAS.EDU
M.WITTEN@UTCHPC.BITNET

syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) (02/19/91)

In article <44412@ut-emx.uucp> mwitten@ut-emx.cc.utexas.edu (matthew witten) writes:
>Item 2. I want to set up a file, let's call it conference.aliases .
>In this file is a list of e-mail addresses of people who need to be
>contacted concerning a particular conference. Assume the list has a large
>amount of names so that I don't want it to be part of my regular e-mail
>alias list. How can I get ELM to read and to send a message to an alternate
>alias list? Further, how can I do it so that it does it by BCC?
See fastmail, or better yet, use a MTA alias.  Its really
designed to handle this problem.

>Item 3. I have the various off the net documents about ELM. Is there anything
>more comprehensive? If so, how do I get my hands on it?
Huh?  All of the Elm docs are distributed as part of the release.
They are in the doc directory.

If you are refering to the postscript pre-processed docs kept on
dsinc.dsi.com for ftp/uucp, those are the same docs as in the doc
directory, just run through di-troff and a di-troff to postscript
converter.  I did that so those without troff but with a postscript
compatible printer would have a way of printing the docs in the better
format than nroff.
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