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From: wand@CORWIN.CCS.NORTHEASTERN.EDU (Mitchell Wand)
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Subject: Filtering incoming mail
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[This is a retransmission; I don't think it got out to the whole list the
first time --mw]

Has anyone out there written any E-Lisp code to automatically look at incoming
mail and distribute it among different mail files?  This would approximate a
personal bulletin board system.

Ideally, such a system would do the following:

(1) when mail is read, file it "appropriately", based perhaps on an
association list using some regexps (easily user-modifiable), and

(2) allow the user to find out which of his or her mail files contain unread
messages.

I know there are fancy systems out there to do this sort of thing (eg the
Information Lens), but GNU Emacs seems to be a good home for at least a simple
version.  Any ideas?

Mitchell Wand
College of Computer Science
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue #161CN
Boston, MA 02115

CSNet:  wand@corwin.ccs.northeastern.edu