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From: D.I.Wood@newcastle.ac.uk (Iain Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Help needed with filter
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.121441.25802@newcastle.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Feb 90 12:14:41 GMT
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Organization: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
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We are experiencing problems using filter. Any attempt to pass
messages through filter resulted in corrupted mailbox/folders. The
problem was that the messages were being saved without the initial
From line ( the one without the : after the From)
This was bodged by executing a script that echoed "From somwhere" then
cat'd the message. Messy but sucessful.
However.... During routine testing, it became apparant that some
messages were just not getting through.
I would mail something to myself and wait for it to arrive.
Approximately one in three of these messages would disappear without
trace. filter -s would report that it had been processed, but it just
never appeared in my mailbox.
I suspect this might be a side effect of the kludge I applied, but
would rather get rid of the kludge than patch it further. Any ideas?

( Here are my .filter-rules.
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# rule 1
if (subject = "InterleafMailFTP") then
execute "/user/ndiw/.filterfudge/uudecodeto /user/ndiw/desktop/Mail.drw "

# default rule
always execute "/user/ndiw/.filterfudge/save /usr/spool/mail/ndiw"
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and here is the .filterfudge/save script
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cat > /tmp/insert.$$
while test -f /tmp/filter.fudge
do
        sleep 2
done
touch /tmp/filter.fudge
( echo "From Ojas-to-Bindu" `date`; cat /tmp/insert.$$ ; echo "" ) >>$1
rm /tmp/insert.$$ /tmp/filter.fudge
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)
Thanks in advance
			Iain

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      Iain Wood          | E-mail  D.I.Wood@uk.ac.newcastle
  Newcastle University   | phone   091 222 8237
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