Re: Subject: Re: filtering email via perl?

[will trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:53:23PM +0200, Martin W?rtele wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:47:10AM -0300, John R Lenton wrote:
> > if you use exim, read /usr/share/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz
> > 
> > an example:
> > 
> >     # debian-user
> >     if $message_headers contains debian-user@lists.debian.org then
> >         save /home/john/Mail/Linux/debian-user
> >         finish
> >     endif
> > 
> > I find this infinitely better than procmail.
> 
> if you're subscribed to more debian lists you can use something like this:
> 
> if $h_x-mailing-list matches "^<debian-(.*)@lists\\\\.debian\\\\.org>" then 
>   seen save $home/Mail/debian-$1 
> endif
>   
> to sort every list into a mailbox with the listname. 

i also like doing

	save Mail/debian-${lc:$1}

in order to
	1) use $home-relative paths and
	2) lowercasing for canonicalization, Just In Case
	(silly to have Debian-User and DEBIAN-USER and debian-user)
	okay, it doesn't happen with debian-* lists, but it happens
	a lot with other email!

query:

does
	seen save ...

stop processing as if you'd said "finish"?

-- 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #26 from Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com> 
:
Do you want a CONSOLE with more than 80 COLUMNS or 24 ROWS?
Experiment with various settings from /etc/TextConfig for use
with "SVGATextMode":
	SVGATextMode 80x30x9
Try "apt-get install svgatextmode" to get it. (It won't work with
xterm or rxvt, of course -- only text-mode console display.)

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...