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How to NOT filter a message

1998-01-03 21:22:52
Hi all.

I have a rather simple problem that I'd like a better fix for.

I recently setup fetchmail/procmail/pine following the instructions in the
mail-filtering-FAQ and all is well apart from 1 thing.

I have mail for various mailing-lists being filtered correctly using
entries like:

:0:
* ^TOdebian-user
Debian-user-list

However when I recieve an answer to a message that I have posted to a
list, the answer also gets filtered into the appropriate list.

I would like to have all mail addressed to me put in my default INBOUND
mail file e.g. /var/spool/mail/jspence  even if it came from a list.

I think the problem is my limited knowledge of what is happening to each
message as it is processed on my system.

Does mail I fetch with fetchmail get placed in my /var/spool/mail/jspence
file and then procmail processes it or does procmail simple place mail in
the spool/mail file that doesn't match any of the filtering rules?

--
John Spence <jspence(_at_)newave(_dot_)net(_dot_)au>  
http://www.newave.net.au/~jspence

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