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From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Filtering incoming mail
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Date: 7 Sep 89 20:32:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells)

In article <37628@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, jbw@bucsf (Joe Wells) writes:
]
]   (2) allow the user to find out which of his or her mail files contain unread
]   messages.
]
]Do you mean the messages would be filed before they were read the first
]time? 

There's a package called pmd (Personal Mail Daemon) that does just this.
It was originally developed by Jim Aspnes, then at Project Athena and
now at CMU, and has since been modified slightly by me.  It's available
via anonymous FTP from think.com (131.239.2.1) as /pmdc.tar.Z.

It consists of the rule compiler (you write a rules file that tells pmd
what to do, and it compiles it into a binary executable), the runtime
support, and some documentation.

Use of this program is advantageous for rmail users, as it can be
configured to deliver mail in babyl format rather than mail format,
which is faster and less prone to errors.
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