Xref: utzoo comp.unix.programmer:522 comp.mail.mh:1252 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!uunet!panews.awdpa.ibm.com!bullhead!brunner From: brunner@bullhead.uucp Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: Message-ID: <1990Nov16.223945.18841@panews> Date: 16 Nov 90 22:39:45 GMT References: Sender: news@panews (news id) Reply-To: brunner@ibmsupt.UUCP () Organization: IBM AWD Palo Alto Lines: 30 In article emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: >Subject: Re: Selective extraction of mail messages >References: <&&$^5T%@rpi.edu> >Distribution: > >In article <&&$^5T%@rpi.edu> loboa@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Austin Lobo) writes: > > Can somebody suggest a program to extract the messages sent by a particular > id, and to store them in a file? I wld also like them to be deleted > automatically, after being saved, so that they wont have to be read > while reading my ordinary mail. > >If you use MH this is easy: > refile `pick -from emv` +junk This gets all the traffic from emv (some user), as files in the subdir "junk", to munch them into a single file, use packf, e.g., folder +junk # set the current folder to "junk" packf [range] -file yard # mush them into the file "yard" rmf +junk # rm -rf "junk" Note: the highly technical semantics of "munch" and "mush" are not implied in this note, they are ment to be understood by my seven year old daughter would, were she to use anything more complex than MINITEL. #include Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486 inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner trying to understand multiprocessing is like having bees live inside your head.