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Filtering for the Network

2000-03-26 02:06:04
Hello,

What I want to be able to do, is receive mail from a hostbased mailbox,
filter it, into separate files, and pick them up from a windows machine,
over the network, connecting to pop3d on the Linux box.

Right, I recieve the mail form the ISP, and filter with a recipe like this:
:0:
* ^TO_ian@
/var/spool/mail/ianmail

:0:
* ^TO_anotheruser@
/var/spool/mail/otheruser

..etc..etc..


Now, when I recieve a message, it puts it into /var/spool/mail/ianmail fine,
but when I go from my windows POP3 client and log on to pick it up, it says
I have no mail. Then, when I log on to the linux box as ianmail, mail says I
have no mail (Even though the message is in /var/spool/mail/ianmail !). When
I run elm, it says:

Reading in /var/spool/mail/ianmail, message,0
Folder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!
Discarding any changes made to mail folder ...


Any ideas why this is happening????

(Is there another way to do this??)


Thanks in Advance!!


Bye for Now,

Ian


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 |  Ian Chilton                             |
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 |  E-Mail:    ian(_at_)ichilton(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk           |
 |  Web Page:  http://www.ianchilton.co.uk  |
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All e-mail is forwarded to my mobile phone.
(Unless it includes an attachment)

However, I only receive the first 150 characters.
Please structure your message accordingly.


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written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company