Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!ajk From: ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Jeff Boerio) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Filter Question/Problem Keywords: filter, elm, problem Message-ID: <3250@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:59:26 GMT Organization: Tg Programming Lines: 29 I am using filter, and have been for quite some time, and have finally become annoyed enough with this little problem to fix it. My .forward shows filter being run like this: "| /usr/unsup/elm/filter -o /userd/ajk/.filter-errors" And here is a sample from my .filter-rules file: from contains "aqm" ? save /userd/ajk/mail/steve from contains "nicely" ? save /userd/ajk/mail/tami from contains "asd" ? save /userd/ajk/mail/kareth It seems that filter is stripping the "New" flag from the Status field and then putting it in the specified mailbox. This means that I have to *know* if a new piece of mail has come in or not. It would seem to me that filter would keep the Status field to new until the message has actually been read. My question is: Have I done something stupid (which is entirely possible), or does filter need to be fixed? - Jeff -- Jeff Boerio : Purdue University Dept. of Computer Science ajk@mace.cc.purdue.edu : Purdue University Computing Center Volunteer boerio@summer.ecn.purdue.edu : Purdue University ECN Student Programmer