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From: berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Subject: Re: Sendmail and .forward question
Message-ID: <1992Jul13.114719.21518@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 92 11:47:19 GMT
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Reha Elci writes:
>What I would like to do is probably standard but I could not
>figure it out. I need to write a mail filter based on
>From: and Subject:, those which match I would like to
>route to another address, those that don't, I'd leave it alone.
>Please tell me how I need to set that up. If you pipe it to
>a program via .forward; it traps all. How do I do this
>selectively?
It'd say, this sound like a job for *procmail*! :-).
No, seriously, have a look at it. It looks like it does exactly what you
need.
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Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless). berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de
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