[comp.mail.elm] elm filter problems

barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu (Latimeria Chalumnae) (08/30/90)

	I tried to set up an elm filter with the following
filter-rules file in my .elm directory:

if (subject contains "stuffidontwant") then delete

When I type filter -r which should list the current elm filter rules I
get:

Rule 1:  if (subject = "stuffidontwant") then
	  Delete 

which seems ok.  I also have a .forward file in my home directory
which contains:

"| /usr/local/bin/filter -vo ~/junk "

	Now the problems begin.  When I test this setup by sending
myself messages with subfect line = stuffidontwant, lo and behold
these messages are deleted.  Unfortunately so are ALL OTHER MESSAGES.
When this sim[ple rule is in effect apparently no mail gets thru.

	Any ideas what's up?
	Please email any responses since I don't read this group
regularly.  Thanks.

Edwin Barkdoll
barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu

p.s. oh, by the way, elm 2.3 is running.


Edwin Barkdoll
barkdoll@cattell.psych.upenn.edu