Ken Hornstein writes: > >I'm curious, what is trying to be accomplished by inc filtering? > > I ... kind of thought it was obvious. "inc" is the point where you take > messages from "external mail drop" and bring them into nmh. It's a logical > point to want to do filtering. Your solution only works if you run your > own SMTP server; that's fine for those who want to do that, but I'd hate > to make it a requirement to do filtering. > > And I think you're not thinking ahead; sure, the behavior of inc NOW is > to display every message as it comes in. But if it deleted them without > you seeing them then that wouldn't be an issue. > > But as usual, Ralph came up with an elegant solution: > > >Sounds complex. How about giving inc(1) a [-sequence foo]... that added > >the incorporated emails to the sequences. The user's script could then > >cook up a unique sequence name, run inc, then pick(1) and mark(1) their > >way through that sequence doing what they liked. > > I like it; keeps the toolbox approach, simple to code, and flexible. > Were you thinking that the use of -sequence would negate also putting those > messages on the unseen sequence? Any other thoughts? > > --Ken
If you reread my posting you'll see that I wasn't suggesting that anybody do what I'm doing. I was documenting my specific use case and my implementation. Part of the reason that I did so is that unwritten things are usually not "obvious". I was presenting my use case and asking for others. And I believe that I was thinking ahead. Please reread my posting which included: > I could do this by filtering at inc time, but then I'd see all of the spam > going by. That wouldn't work for me since I get at least 100x as much spam > as legitimate email. I suppose that there a filtering mechanism could have > a "don't show stuff being sent to this folder" setting and then it would > work for me and be a better solution than the milter. Jon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
