/usr/spool/mail filter/editor?

[Murray S. Kucherawy]

nichols at en.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP writes:
>I am interested in a shell script that will, upon execution, view
>the contents of the /usr/spool/mail/lname file and remove any mail
>from a certain user or list of users.  I'm sure it has been done
>many times, but I don't have the skills yet to write it on my own.

I can provide two alternatives:

1) "Elm" is distributed (I think) with a program called "filter",
and you write a script for it to handle certain mail a certain way as
it arrives;

2) "Mush" has the capability to do this much easier, IMHO.

I don't have shell scripts that do what you ask, but both of those mail
packages have the capacity to do what you want.

=============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ==========================
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