Xref: utzoo gnu.emacs:129 comp.emacs:4496 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!telly!ddsw1!mcdchg!rutgers!labrea!agate!pasteur!ames!fxgrp!ljz From: ljz%fxgrp.fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Lloyd Zusman) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,comp.emacs Subject: An rmail question. Message-ID: Date: 20 Oct 88 20:48:32 GMT Sender: ljz@fxgrp.UUCP Distribution: usa Organization: FX Development Group, Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 36 I am using GNU Emacs 18.52 and I have a question about rmail. I know how to put a line in my ~/.forward file so that sendmail pipes my mail through a function instead of cramming it into my mailbox. This allows me to filter my mail messages any way I wish. However, due to the heavy load on my system and the large volume of mail I get, the process overhead of this extra filtering is undesirably expensive. So, I would like to filter my mail in a different manner. Since I use rmail inside of GNU Emacs, it seems to me that it would be nice if the 'rmail-get-new-mail' function could optionally filter the messages as it takes them from my system mailbox and writes them into my RMAIL mailbox. Some sort of hook could be used for this, I presume. As far as I can tell, there is no existing way of doing this. Is that true, or is there some feature of rmail that I have missed which will do this for me? If there isn't such a feature, I guess a rewrite of 'rmail-get-new-mail' is in order. Before I re-invent the wheel, has anyone out there created something that will do this kind of mail filtering? What about mail systems other than rmail that run under GNU emacs? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Lloyd Zusman Internet: ljz@fx.com Master Byte Software or ljz%fx.com@ames.arc.nasa.gov Los Gatos, California or fxgrp!ljz@ames.arc.nasa.gov "We take things well in hand." uucp: ...!ames!fxgrp!ljz [ our Internet connection is down: use uucp or mail to the entry above it ]