taylor@hpldat.UUCP (Dave Taylor) (05/07/87)
From: rutgers!seismo!gould!novavax!utx1!chester@hplabs.HP.COM (Bernard Chester) Subject: filters To: hplabs!taylor@hplabs.HP.COM (Dave Taylor) Date: Wed, 6 May 87 16:01:24 EDT I tried to set up my filter as per the 1.5 filter guide example. all mail got returned to the sender due to "unbalanced >" errors from .forward processing. Any suggestions? we are running a gould 9080 under utx version 1.3, which is a bsd port. we all run kshell, i am not sure which shell is used by the mail system. Thanks for any help you can provide.
nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) (01/22/91)
I am using the elm "filter" feature. I have successfully forwarded
my mail to the filter, and have a set of filter-rules as to what
the filter is to do if I get mail from certain people or about
certain subjects.
My problem:
Is there a way to have the filter do more than one job on a letter?
i.e. I get mail from somedude@chuck.pu.edu and I want to
a) send him a form thank you _and_
b) put the mail in my mailbox
If there is no way *yet* to do this with the elm filter, would
someone possibly have a shell-script for csh that would do the
same thing, that I could run using the EXECUTE command of filter?
Thanks,
Scott
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In article <1991Jan21.160107.14157@en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes: >My problem: > >Is there a way to have the filter do more than one job on a letter? > >i.e. I get mail from somedude@chuck.pu.edu and I want to > a) send him a form thank you _and_ > b) put the mail in my mailbox > >If there is no way *yet* to do this with the elm filter, would >someone possibly have a shell-script for csh that would do the >same thing, that I could run using the EXECUTE command of filter? > I solved this specific problem with the following line (all one line): if ( lines > 1 ) ? execute "tee -a /oper/mascio/mailbox | \ /usr/local/bin/vacation mascio" This put my mail in my mail box while I was on vacation this Xmas, and piped the message into our vacation program which tells the sender that I am not here and what ever message I have in my vacation file. Just replace the last command with whatever appropriate script/binary that will perform the "Thank You" response. JRSM --- mascio@convex.com John Raymond Stone Mascio _ mascio@mcs.kent.edu _|_|_) UNIX SysAdmin - Engineering Operations / Convex Computer Corp (_|_| Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, and in no way reflect Convex's opinions or policies, except accidentially.
fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford x8614) (01/22/91)
In article <1991Jan21.160107.14157@en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes: >Is there a way to have the filter do more than one job on a letter? I use filter rules to pipe the letter to a temporary file, then call a script file to do futher processing. if ( subject "junk" ) then execute "cat - >/tmp/junk.$$; /usr/joe/bin/doJUNK $$" The $$ in a ksh indicates the pid of the program. Since multiple copies of filter could be running simultaneously, this prevents your temporary files from being over-written. The /usr/joe/bin/doJUNK program is something like this: # where are we? cd /tmp # send this to jane elm -s "Junk" jane <junk.$1 # add to one of my folders so I can read it cat junk.$1 >>/usr/joe/Mail/junk # put a copy out for the server mv junk.$1 /usr/server/junk.$1 Hope this helps. -- | ...!uunet!ingr!fordke OR fordke@ingr.com | Micro Magic BBS (Fidonet: 1:373/12, MaBell: +1 205 830 2362) | "and the Trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw." -Rush
iacovou@cs.umn.edu (Danny Iacovou) (01/22/91)
Speaking of filters, here's an interesting "bug" that one of our
users found. He created a filter to filter all mail from a mailing
list to a folder. Simple right? Nope. The first letter began with
an "i", and he couldn't get it to filter out. Example:
if ( from = "i----") then
save -----
if ( from = i----) then
save -----
none of the above cases worked. We then tried other words that began
with "i" and they did not work either. Any ideas?
BTW: we are running elm 2.3 pl 6
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