On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Joi Ellis wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Denis Dubuisson wrote:
hi all
is it possible to set up a filter in the .forward file so that only the
mailing list is forwarded to be archived? if yes, what's the code to do
it? :^) (ok, this is more a sendmail question than a mhonarc question, but
i figure you might help...). Or maybe it is possible to write a perl
filter towards which the .forward would point before letting mhonarc do its
job, like described in the faq. if yes, what would be the code? :^) (not
being lazy, but willing to learn!).
I use procmail for this. It's written in perl, and it's quite powerful.
I filter about 10 different lists into mhonarc archives using procmail to
stuff the incoming lists into separate folders, and a cron job to process
the folders into the archives several times a day. It's possible to have
procmail actually invoke mhonarc directly, but I found the performance hit
on my linux box to be too annoying and moved that to cron instead.
Actually procmail is written in C, but I too suggest procmail for any
mail sorting/processing, it is very robust. Be very careful though,
you can lose mail if you are not careful with your procmail recipes.
yuji
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Yuji Shinozaki Computer Systems Programmer
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yuji(_at_)cs(_dot_)duke(_dot_)edu D125 Levine Sci Res Center
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