From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 29 07:36:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA08150 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 May 1996 07:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA08143 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 07:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03087; Wed, 29 May 1996 09:33:58 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:33:58 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: Randall Hopper cc: Paul Richards , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Er... how long In-Reply-To: <199605281600.MAA03858@elmer.picker.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 May 1996, Randall Hopper wrote: > Incidentally, ELM also comes with "filter" (a sendmail .forward filter > program) which allows you to filter out mail from different lists into > different mail file folders so you don't have to deal with this manually. > It's similar to procmail (so I've heard), but allegedly procmail is more > capable. FWIW, here's a sample portion of my ~/.elm/filter-rules: For the record, if you use elm's filter, one day you *will* loose mail. This is not a matter of if, but when. This is a platform independent "feature", not a quirk in the freebsd version. Do the right thing and use procmail. Unfortunately, the syntax of procmail rules file are a little obtuse when compared to filter but I guess it makes for faster parsing. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================