Path: utzoo!mnetor!motto!murray
From: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/mail filter/editor?
Message-ID: <334@motto.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 17:41:54 GMT
References: <1991Jan16.185727.15843@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: murray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy)
Organization: Communications Division, Motorola Canada Ltd., Toronto
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nichols@en.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP 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.

I can provide two alternatives:

1) "Elm" is distributed (I think) with a program called "filter",
and you write a script for it to handle certain mail a certain way as
it arrives;

2) "Mush" has the capability to do this much easier, IMHO.

I don't have shell scripts that do what you ask, but both of those mail
packages have the capacity to do what you want.

=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
Motorola Canada, Ltd.     Communications Division, Toronto      [on work term]
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada               2B Math/Computer Science
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