ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio) (09/30/89)
I am using filter, and have been for quite some time, and have finally
become annoyed enough with this little problem to fix it.
My .forward shows filter being run like this:
"| /usr/unsup/elm/filter -o /userd/ajk/.filter-errors"
And here is a sample from my .filter-rules file:
from contains "aqm" ? save /userd/ajk/mail/steve
from contains "nicely" ? save /userd/ajk/mail/tami
from contains "asd" ? save /userd/ajk/mail/kareth
It seems that filter is stripping the "New" flag from the Status field and
then putting it in the specified mailbox. This means that I have to *know*
if a new piece of mail has come in or not.
It would seem to me that filter would keep the Status field to new until
the message has actually been read. My question is: Have I done something
stupid (which is entirely possible), or does filter need to be fixed?
- Jeff
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Jeff Boerio : Purdue University Dept. of Computer Science
ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu : Purdue University Computing Center Volunteer
boerio@summer.ecn.purdue.edu : Purdue University ECN Student Programmertaylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor) (10/02/89)
Jeff Boerio from Purdue asks about "filter" and its prediliction to "strip
the 'new' flag from the Status field" before delivering the mail into the
specified mailbox.
Well, Jeff, I can't see how that's happening; the Status: field (if that's
what you're talking about) is something that is added by the Berkeley Mail
(aka "mailx" on System V machines) program so it can keep track of the
status of messages. That isn't, technically, a header that is generated
by a sender, forwarding site, or even delivery program at all...
Having said that, I have occasionally received messages that *have* the
Status: field already included. Usually, though, that's because someone
is "bouncing" (or equivalent: 'cat message | sendmail') a message to me that
they read using Berkeley Mail.
I can see where you'd get annoying about what's going on, but I assure you
that unless I'm completely confused about what you're talking about, that
it is most certainly not a problem with the 'filter' program itself.
Look into it further (e.g. turn off filter, then look at your new mailbox
with something like 'cat' and see if there are "Status:" fields included
in your messages) and get back to us?
From the virtual reality of,
-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California
taylor@limbo.intuitive.com or {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor