nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) (01/17/91)
I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view
the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail
from a certain user or list of users. I'm sure it has been done
many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own.
Anyone been hacking away at something like this?
Scott
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In article <1991Jan16.185727.15843@en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:
%I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view
%the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail
%from a certain user or list of users. I'm sure it has been done
%many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own.
%
%Anyone been hacking away at something like this?
The elm mailer has a lovely set of filters.
I have found that once installed the filters keep my berzerkely mail
cleaned up too.
You can take such actions as delete, save to file , forward
based on subject who from and combinations.
Ed
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^C ^c helpexit ?Quit ?q decwrl or uunet or tek !sequent!edw silver@xrtll.uucp (Hi Ho Silver) (01/20/91)
In comp.unix.shell, nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) typed: $I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view $the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail $from a certain user or list of users. I'm sure it has been done $many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own. Depending on your mailer, the easiest way to do this may well be simply to run mail -u lname with the following redirected to its input: d whoever-is-to-be-deleted q The dumb mailer that comes with Xenix, for example, allows you to delete messages from a person as above. Heck, if you wanted to, you could even put it into a here document and make about a four-line shell script out of it. -- __ __ _ | ...!nexus.yorku.edu!xrtll!silver | always (__ | | | | |_ |_) >----------------------------------< searching __) | |_ \/ |__ | \ | if you don't like my posts, type | for _____________________/ find / -print|xargs cat|compress | SNTF
murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) (01/24/91)
nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP writes: >I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view >the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail >from a certain user or list of users. I'm sure it has been done >many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own. I can provide two alternatives: 1) "Elm" is distributed (I think) with a program called "filter", and you write a script for it to handle certain mail a certain way as it arrives; 2) "Mush" has the capability to do this much easier, IMHO. I don't have shell scripts that do what you ask, but both of those mail packages have the capacity to do what you want. =============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ========================== Motorola Canada, Ltd. Communications Division, Toronto [on work term] University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2B Math/Computer Science Internet: murray@motto.UUCP (work) mskucherawy@watmath.UWaterloo.ca (UW) UUCP: uunet!utai!lsuc!motto!murray uunet!watmath!mskucherawy