topic Setting Rules in Mailx in Operating System - HP-UX

Setting Rules in Mailx

Jeff Paciolla_2 — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:29:45 GMT

Is there anyway to set automated rules in mailx? i.e. any time I get an email from user john doe, do "xyz"

Thanks
Jeff

Re: Setting Rules in Mailx

Kasper Haitsma — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 02:51:49 GMT

Hello Jeff,

Mailx itself, cannot perform any sorting or filing.

What you are looking for, is procmail(1). With procmail installed, you can archive incomming mail on a system wide basis (the so called procmail mailer definition should the be added to sendmail.cf) and on a userid based level.
The user can (through so called recipe's) file/forward/discard emails, based on virtually any character combination in the message header or body.

procmail is part of the product: HP-UX InterNet Express
please search http://software.hp.com for this product.

HTH

Kasper
HP support engineer for sendmail, OpenMail, OVO/u

Re: Setting Rules in Mailx

Elmar P. Kolkman — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 04:19:08 GMT

Depending on what you want, newmail could be a solution to what you want, though it doesn't filter on sender...