epeterso@houligan.encore.com (Eric Peterson) (11/10/90)
I've been playing with filter a bit lately, and I can't seem to get it
to work right. What I want to do is save all messages that come to me
through a mailing list called "gem_team" to a folder called
"/usrs/sqa/epeterso/Mail/gemini" as well as drop them into my mailbox.
My ~/.elm/filter-rules file looks like this:
## Save all gem_team mail
if (to "gem_team") then savecopy "/usrs/sqa/epeterso/Mail/gemini"
My home and Mail directories are both 755, and file gemini is 644.
Here's part of the header from a message I received on that list:
From encore!maxzilla!dgardine Fri Nov 9 19:07:09 1990
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 90 19:04:22 EST
From: Derek Gardiner <gould!maxzilla!dgardine>
Message-Id: <9011100004.AA26771@maxzilla.>
To: gem_team
Subject: Gemini minutes 11/9
Status: OR
As far as I can tell, this should do what I want it to do. But it
doesn't. Not even when I run this message through filter on the
command line. Not even different variations on the contents of the if
clause ('to contains "gem_team"' 'to "gem_team"', and 'to =
"gem_team"' all have not worked).
Any clue as to what's going on? I'm running Elm 2.3.8.
Eric
--
Eric Peterson <> epeterson@encore.com <> uunet!encore!epeterson
Encore Computer Corp. * Ft. Lauderdale, Florida * (305) 587-2900 x 5208
Why did Constantinople get the works? Gung'f abobql'f ohfvarff ohg gur Ghexf.chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (11/13/90)
According to epeterson@encore.com (Eric Peterson): >I've been playing with filter a bit lately, and I can't seem to get it >to work right. I would suggest that users of filter should upgrade to Deliver 2.0 if filter's quirks are causing them difficulties. > What I want to do is save all messages that come to me >through a mailing list called "gem_team" to a folder called >"/usrs/sqa/epeterso/Mail/gemini" as well as drop them into my mailbox. A user delivery file to accomplish this goal might look like: #!/bin/sh case "`header -f To $HEADER`" *gem_team*) echo "Mail/gemini" ;; esac echo "$1" Presto! Deliver 2.0 is available at finer archive sites everywhere, including osu-cis and alfred. E-Mail for details. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed by that evil Chip Salzenberg." -- John F. Haugh II
rob@dutncp8.tudelft.nl (Rob Kurver) (11/13/90)
In <273ED190.56F6@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: }According to epeterson@encore.com (Eric Peterson): }>I've been playing with filter a bit lately, and I can't seem to get it }>to work right. }I would suggest that users of filter should upgrade to Deliver 2.0 if }filter's quirks are causing them difficulties. What exactly are these quirks? Filter seems to work fine for me. }> What I want to do is save all messages that come to me }>through a mailing list called "gem_team" to a folder called }>"/usrs/sqa/epeterso/Mail/gemini" as well as drop them into my mailbox. }A user delivery file to accomplish this goal might look like: } #!/bin/sh } case "`header -f To $HEADER`" } *gem_team*) echo "Mail/gemini" ;; } esac } echo "$1" A filter rule to accomplish this goal might look like: to contains gem_team ? savecopy <folder-name> }Presto! Cheers. - Rob -- Rob Kurver rob@dutncp8.tudelft.nl Computational Physics Group rob@pact.nl Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology Pardon this fortune. Database under reconstruction.
epeterso@houligan.encore.com (Eric Peterson) (11/14/90)
rob@dutncp8.tudelft.nl (Rob Kurver) writes: | In <273ED190.56F6@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: | | }According to epeterson@encore.com (Eric Peterson): | }>I've been playing with filter a bit lately, and I can't seem to get it | }>to work right. | | }I would suggest that users of filter should upgrade to Deliver 2.0 if | }filter's quirks are causing them difficulties. Deliver would be overkill -- I've found the problem. | }> What I want to do is save all messages that come to me | }>through a mailing list called "gem_team" to a folder called | }>"/usrs/sqa/epeterso/Mail/gemini" as well as drop them into my mailbox. | | A filter rule to accomplish this goal might look like: | | to contains gem_team ? savecopy <folder-name> Chip deleted the part where I included my ~/.elm/filter-rules file which contains a statement equivalent to that above. Luckily, though, I've found out what's going on ... Here's my filter rule: to contains "gem_team" ? savecopy "/usrs/sqa/epeterso/Mail/gemini" Here's the result of `filter -r`: Rule 1: if (to = "gem team") then Copy and Save /usrs/sqa/epeterso/Mail/gemini Looks like "gem_team" is getting mapped to "gem team", which is *not* what I want! Looks like it's time to hack the filter code ... unless there is some way to pass an underscore to filter without it being mapped into a space (and, no, backslash quoting it didn't help). Eric -- Eric Peterson <> epeterson@encore.com <> uunet!encore!epeterson Encore Computer Corp. * Ft. Lauderdale, Florida * (305) 587-2900 x 5208 Why did Constantinople get the works? Gung'f abobql'f ohfvarff ohg gur Ghexf.
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (11/20/90)
According to rob@dutncp8.tudelft.nl (Rob Kurver): >In <273ED190.56F6@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >}I would suggest that users of filter should upgrade to Deliver 2.0 if >}filter's quirks are causing them difficulties. > >What exactly are these quirks? Filter seems to work fine for me. I refer to bugs and/or surprising behaviors that Filter has exhibited for its users. I cannot recall past complaints, for which I apologize. Never having been a user of filter, I have no complaints myself, except perhaps that it occupies space in /u/src/mail/elm. :-) In any case, I cannot believe that Deliver, which uses shell scripts to control delivery, is in any way inferior to filter, with its restricted sets of conditions and actions; and Deliver is certainly the more general and flexible of the two. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed by that evil Chip Salzenberg." -- John F. Haugh II
acbhour@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Rudi van Houten) (11/22/90)
In article <27482CEE.50AE@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >In any case, I cannot believe that Deliver, which uses shell scripts >to control delivery, is in any way inferior to filter, with its >restricted sets of conditions and actions; and Deliver is certainly >the more general and flexible of the two. Just to ask a question: What is Deliver, how can I get information about it? -- Rudi van Houten <acbhour@cc.ruu.nl> Academisch Computer Centrum Utrecht / Besturings Systemen Budapestlaan 8 - 3584 CD - Utrecht - Netherlands Tel: +31 30 531731 Fax: +31 30 531633
rudolf@curano.acadch.com (Rudolf Kuenzli) (12/03/90)
In article <27482CEE.50AE@tct.uucp> chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >>}I would suggest that users of filter should upgrade to Deliver 2.0 if >>}filter's quirks are causing them difficulties. Well, I am using filter heavily for almost every automatic processing of my email and it does a perfect neat job. I even construct hate mail and bounce mail withit without any difficulties. -- Rudolf the Magician In real life: Rudolf Kuenzli uucp: ...uunet!autodesk!adeskch!rudolf Internet: rudolf@curano.acadch.com ...chx400!adeskch!rudolf rudolf@adeskch.uu.ch
cse426@cck.cov.ac.uk (Simon Anderson) (12/18/90)
Sorry if this has been asked, but I'm having problems with Filter.... When it gets incoming mail from the .forward entry and tries to add it to the mailbox, it just adds it to the end of the last message instead of as a new message. It Only does this when it gets the message forwarded, when I pipe the same message to it directly, it works fine. I've tried the manual page, the filter guide and the local help newsgroup, but no-one here seems to know whats causing it. Any help much appreciated. -- Simon Anderson. cse426@uk.ac.cov.cck