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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Can I use the "filter" program?
Keywords: elm filter smail sendmail
Message-ID: <582@tiamat.fsc.com>
Date: 3 Jun 89 18:04:05 GMT
References: <778@cjsa.WA.COM> <1989Jun1.193715.908@ateng.ateng.com>
Organization: Filtration Sciences - Chattanooga,TN
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In article <1989Jun1.193715.908@ateng.ateng.com>, chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> [Followups directed to comp.mail.misc]
>
> According to jeff@cjsa.WA.COM (Jeffery Small):
> >I am running smail 2.5 under elm and need to automatically forward a set of
> >mail messages which match a certain pattern, to another site.  Is there any
> >way to get "filter" working without running sendmail or is there another
> >method of achieving the same result?
> 
> Filter may work.
> 
> IMHO, a better solution is the "deliver" program, which by some mysterious
> coincidence was written by yours truly.  With deliver, you write shell

Just so Chip doesn't have to blow his own horn all the time, I'll add my
opinion.  I have found that "deliver" is more reliable (i.e. mail actually
gets handled the way you want it to), more flexible (I've done things with
deliver that I don't see a equivalent for in filter), and is easier to set
up than filter.  I like the summaries that filter produces, but you can
create log files by way of the shell scripts you use with "deliver", so you
can actually keep different logs of different types of mail handling.

I have also noticed some of the filter rules don't always work as advertised.
With deliver, there are no "rules" only actions directed by the code in
your shell scripts.  You define your own rules.
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James B. O'Connor			jim@tiamat.fsc.com
Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651

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