[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal

Steve Schlink [email protected]
Thu, 03 Jan 2002 23:39:20 -0500


At 11:27 PM 1/3/02 , gil smith wrote:
>Anyone have ideas on sending an email message automatically to a file?  

	Actually it already is in Eudora - it's in the <mailbox name>.mbx file,
which is ascii.

>My old eudora filters don't have that option, but perhaps another program
does.  

	So, just create a new mailbox, create a filter to send the CNN mail to it,
then print.

>How about piping it through a simple text filter?  Even something as
simple as delete N lines, save M lines...
>
>gil

If it were unix or Linux, it would be exceeding easy (why am I STILL using
Microcrap?):

A cron job to check for a new message, awk or sed to strip off the header,
and cat to /dev/tty.

Done.

Steve Schlink