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From: edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/mail filter/editor?
Message-ID: <50855@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 91 19:30:29 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.185727.15843@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright)
Organization: Orygun Society For HUman Rustabillity Assessment
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In article <1991Jan16.185727.15843@en.ecn.purdue.edu> nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott P Nichols) writes:
%I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view
%the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail
%from a certain user or list of users.  I'm sure it has been done
%many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own.
%
%Anyone been hacking away at something like this?

The elm mailer has a lovely set of filters.
I have found that once installed the filters keep my berzerkely mail
cleaned up too.
You can take such actions as delete, save to file , forward
based on subject who from and combinations.

Ed
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