Receiving individual messages

[Peter Blake]

On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Nick Parker wrote:

> Does anybody know if it's possible to receive Samba list e-mail messages
> individually instead of as the digest? I find it very difficult to sort out
> what's interesting from what isn't when I have to search through the digest.
> 

Hi,

You could export the entire digest and then break it up as follows:

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#!/bin/csh
#
# mail digest reformatter
#
set FORMATTER = formail
set BIN_DIR = /usr/local/bin
set path = (/bin $BIN_DIR)
#
if ( -x $BIN_DIR/$FORMATTER ) then
	if ( -e $HOME/tmp/bsdi ) then
		cat $HOME/tmp/bsdi | $FORMATTER -ds >> $HOME/mail/bsdi-users
		rm $HOME/tmp/bsdi
	else
		echo No bsdi-users digest
	endif
	if ( -e $HOME/tmp/samba ) then
		cat $HOME/tmp/samba | $FORMATTER -ds >> $HOME/mail/samba.list
		rm $HOME/tmp/samba
	else
		echo No samba.list digest
	endif
else
	echo $BIN_DIR/$FORMATTER not found
	exit 1
endif
exit 0
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formail comes as part of the procmail package.


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Peter Blake
ppb at hft.co.uk
ppb at baloo.tcp.co.uk