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Re: Resending mail from one mailbox to multiple accounts

2001-04-10 22:40:37


formail -s procmail ./redirect.rc < test.mailbox

where does this code go?  this is a shell command?

The problem with this is that I doubt the ^TO_ regexp is going to catch 
much of anything in a way that you're going to be able to directly 
manipulate if you want to catch it as a MATCH to subsequently parse. 
(unlike matching something within ^To: or ^Cc:, which aren't macro regexps 
like ^TO_).  You're not really asking for anything SPECIFIC, and MATCH 
matches to EOL.  

not YET.  what i have has to woyk foyst.


Now, the first thing to keep in mind is that while developing/testing your 
rule you should have it dump messages into a series of files (one for each 
recipient), rather than forwarding them 

there is a misunderstanding here.. i want my normal .forward to 
MY other address to work as usual as i gradually develop the 
ability to process incoming mail.  maybe i goofed i want 
a ^FROM clause (umm.. is that default or something)  i am 
not trying to blockspam right now.. though that might be
interesting.. 

the important thing to me is that i can understand how this thing
is working.. test it by sending messages to my self for a while.. 
until i put it into action.. 

okay here's the deal... it is about playing chess online. i have
racked up about 8000 games.. i save them all manually currently.. 
i want to stop this.. there is a text based format.. caled 
portable game notation (*.pgn) files.. they all come like this.. 
so by using the unix mail automation i can catch all these
chess games (blitz.. 100's at  a time). 

with these files.. flat files really but in a certain format
that is recognized by chess database applications.. i can 
better analyze my play.. i don't have the database at home
right now.. but i want my personal data for when i do.. also 
i can use the one at the chess club.

the problem is.. chess isn't the only thing i use my 
email from.. i have a UNIX account and an aol account.. sometimes
i use the aol account i just as soon have that continued to 
be set up the way i had it simply while i play with  my 
ability to process incoming emails.



- this way, failed tests don't send 
a flurry of email at someone (and someone to whom perhaps they shouldn't 
have been sent!).  When you figure you've got it right THEN change it to 
forward.  During testing, since you'll be writing to a file, you'll want to 
add the ':' (lock) flag (though I think with the formail invocation, this 
isn't strictly necessary, it is still proper practice).


i didn't have any plans to forward anything to anyone else.. just 
myself.  i don't mind spam too much.. especially when it is from 
me  {:}.
k

As for the domain - is it really a bunch of different ones?  

no.. but it might be in the future.

like it'd be a problem, since you're not really matching against anything 
specific (and if you need to match the userid and domain as separate 
tokens, you'll probably need to extract them together and pass them through 

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