In comp.mail.elm, Hugo Bouckaert wrote:
> I am wondering if someone can help me with a rather intractable
> problem. I have compiled elm filter 2.1 on a linux Redhat 6.0
> machine which is also our mail server. It compiles OK, but the
> problem is that when you do any filtering by placing a pipe to
> the filter program in your .forward file..
Example?
> .. all messages that are not subject to filtering (i.e. those not
> subject to filtering in the filter-rules program) do not appear in
> the mailbox.
Hmmm...
> I think this due to a problem with the macro expansion of %u,
> that is, filter should find the mailbox /var/spool/mail/username
> for a particular user by using the %u macro (in the config
> file it states it is using /var/spool/mail/%u). I suspect %u
> does not map to the username and therefore non-filtered
> messages are not placed in the /var/spool/mail/username
> folder as filter does not know what the username is.
Again - example?
> Anyone come across this problem before? Is there a solution to this?
Phil?
Sven
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