Colm Buckley's [colm at tuatha.org] 23 lines of dribble included:
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<:> I want to pipe it into a script that will filter it.. and echo
<:> unwanted emails to /dev/null whilst forwarding the rest to a different
<:> email account.
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<:Procmail will be able to do this for you; you almost definitely won't
<:need to write your own script. Procmail can either be integrated into
<:the mail delivery system on your machine, or run "standalone" by each
<:user. Either way, it's very powerful, and well worth-while.
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/procmail.htmlhttp://www.pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/procmail.html
Two procmail tutorials, of course man procmail and the procmail docs get you
stuff as well..
Phil.
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