Re: Distributing a procmail filter (was: Re: splitting up the...)
On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> I've been trying to get in touch with the c.o.l.a. moderator (I'm pretty
> sure that's who it was) to get permission to add a modified version of
> his procmail filter to /usr/doc/procmail/examples. It includes things
> like blacklist, whitelist, vacation, newsgroup filters, etc. However, I
> haven't had a response so I may just send it to the procmail maintainer
> to see what he/she thinks.
This is rediculous. First of all, I get my mail from a POP3
server on some system somewhere I don't even have access to.
There's no way for me to filter incoming mail. I have to
download all of it first -- and its costs a helluva lot more
to connect here than it does in the heart land.
Second of all, requiring newbies to use procmail filters
just to get help is totally unreasonable. I think if they
can figure out procmail, they don't need much help in the
first place.
>
> > Another idea/question - can a filter explode messages from
> > debian-user-digest?
>
> There's a debian package for this, try looking through the packages file
> for digest. I know I've seen it before.
If you happen to have procmail installed, there's a binary
in the package called formail. From the man page:
EXAMPLES
To split up a digest one usually uses:
formail +1 -ds >>the_mailbox_of_your_choice
or
formail +1 -ds procmail
The former is safe as long as your sure there won't be
anything else writing to the "mailbox_of_your_choice" file
at the same time. Incidentally, I think the second example
should be a pipe, e.g.:
formail +1 -ds | procmail
and this would require having a working procmail
configuration. I don't know anything about any digest
specific package, but it may be simpler if you're not sure
about the race condition issue. I do this currently and
dump it into a file that nothing would possibly write to,
then I read it as a folder in pine.
Case in point? Debian-* may be the first mailing list(s) in
history that you need to _learn_ how to read (the mailing
list, not the words -- of course you'd have to know how to
read those too!)
Cheers,
--
"Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living
things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer
Richard G. Roberto
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