Re: Mail filters question still unanswered

At 14:53 2002-05-14 -0400, Paul Batchie wrote:
>> Good to know that I can filter on any kind of header. The question remains: how do I set this up?
>>
>> A few sample filters would be nice. What I have seen on the websites so far hasn't answered my question.
>>
>> To restate the question: How do I set up mail filters using arbitrary message headers? For instance, given the header:
>>
>>> Content-Type: text/html; charset="ks_c_5601-1987"
>>
>> how do I make a filter that will delete this message on the remote server without downloading the whole thing? (Or the nearest possible action.)
>
>
>For the above example, something like
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>	=kill() Content-Type: {text/html}
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>or
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>	=kill() Content-Type: {charset="ks_c_5601-1987"}
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>should work, depending on what you're trying to do.


Yeah, the second example is it ... I've put that in, and added several more entries - 2 other charsets and variants. As far as I can tell, it is working; at least, I haven't seen any of these turn up in Eudora so far since I set this up.

I can't be absolutely certain it's working, because I haven't figured out "notify()". How the heck does notify(admin) work? I tacked that line onto the end of my filter file, since there seemed to be nothing else to do with it ... but I haven't seen any notifications. Could someone clarify this??


>Further instructions and examples are in the Help file - even the
>outdated English Help file. The Help file comes with each full
>release version of Hamster, but not with the betas. A somewhat
>updated version of the mail filter help is at 
>
>	http://users.bestweb.net/~pbatchie/hamhelp/
>
>In mailfilt.hst the filter order can be very important.

I referred to this, and it did indeed tell me what I needed to know - except for how to use notify().

Thanks very much (and thanks to Karl Ove Hufthammer <[email protected]> as well),
Bill Phillips