Re: Done

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 10:09:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> Package: mailagent
> Description: mail-processing tool
>  Mailagent allows you to process your mail automatically.
> 
> 	I bet ya it would take more than a minute to take this package
>  down, find out what all it can do, and write up a description. And
>  multiply that with hundreds of packages with inadequate
>  descriptions, no wonder nothing ever gets done about it -- until
>  now. 

You'd lose that bet.  It took about 8 seconds to download the package and
look in the upstream README, which gave me a good idea of what sort of mail
processing features it has.  It also has several examples.

> This program will filter all your incoming mail by applying a set of rules
> and trying to figure out what to do with it. A message can be saved in a
> folder, left in the main mailbox, posted to a newsgroup, forwarded to
> other people, split if it is a digest, and more.  You may even delete all
> that mailyou do not wish to see, ever.  The filtering rules are specified
> in a notation similar to lex(1).

And that took less than a minute in total, borrowing phrases from the README.

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 - mdz