Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs:130 comp.emacs:4497 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!telly!ddsw1!mcdchg!clyde!ima!think!rlk From: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs Subject: Re: An rmail question. Message-ID: <29506@think.UUCP> Date: 21 Oct 88 13:50:09 GMT References: Sender: news@think.UUCP Reply-To: rlk@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Followup-To: gnu.emacs Distribution: usa Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 13 In-reply-to: ljz%fxgrp.fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman) It's a lot cheaper to filter mail using a filter than it is to filter it in emacs -- emacs lisp is fast, but not as fast as good C code for one thing, and also the latency involved in emacs sorting the mail would be pretty bad. There's a program called pmd (Personal Mail Daemon) that was written by Jim Aspnes and modified by me that does just this. It's available by anonymous ftp from think.com (10.4.0.6) as pmdc.tar.Z. You might have to try the ftp several times -- the /public filesystem is somewhat unreliable, and our network connection is also somewhat unreliable (off-peak hours work best). -- harvard >>>>>> | Robert Krawitz bloom-beacon > |think!rlk topaz >>>>>>>> . rlk@a.HASA.disorg