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From: wls@garden-brau.csd.uwm.edu (Bill Stapleton)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Why won't filter work?????
Message-ID: <7922@uwm.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 90 17:29:09 GMT
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In article <11897@sybase.sybase.com>, dit@frenzy.sybase.com (frustrated) writes:
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> if ( from contains "funky" ) then save "$HOME/Mail/funky"

You can't count on having your normal environment when sendmail runs filter
via your ".forward" file, and I'm not sure if filter even expands $HOME.
Filter probably gets an error trying the first save, and backs off to saving
the mail in your mailbox.  You might get more information if you use the "-o"
option, with a full pathname.

The easiest fix is to just completely specify the path, without using $HOME.

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Bill Stapleton
     wls@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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