At 11:36 2001-07-28 -0400, Brian C. Doyle wrote:
Can I use PROCMAIL to filter news groups??? If so where would I want to
look for more info.
First, I recall that there are some news-to-email gateways out there. If
you get and install one, you might be able to handle your news via email,
and therefore use procmail in the fashion more as it was intended. I don't
use any nntp-to-email gateways, so I can't point you to any or comment on
how effective this approach might be.
Automatically (invoked via the nntp agent), I very much doubt it, unless
you want to start hacking a newsreader to accomodate it.
Manually, perhaps - but you need to either have the files stored as
individual messages, since they lack a 'From ' header, or you'd have to
write a script to construct a workable 'From ' header so that formail could
split the mailbox. Still, your newsreader isn't going to invoke the
procmail filtering.
In short, unless you can find an existing hack to support this, or you plan
to do a bunch of coding yourself, I wouldn't hold out that it'll be an
easy - or certainly not _streamlined_ process.
I took about 10.2 seconds and performed a websearch on AltaVista for "+nntp
+procmail" (as I'm sure that you did before posting your question), and the
following document was produced near the top of the large list of results:
<http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/>
(FTR, this is Nancy McGough's Quickstart, and is linked from the main page
of <http://www.procmail.org>, you DID read the FAQs, right?)
There, you'll note the ONLY references to NNTP are in the context of the
NNTP clients accessing your regular mailboxes (which would have been
filtered by procmail).
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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