From: ag221 (Howard Eisenberger)
Newsgroups: ncf.admin
Subject: Re: Editing my Elm Filter file
Date: 20 Oct 2000 05:57:38 GMT
Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID: <slrn8uvnmh.8se.ag221@freenet10.carleton.ca>

Tom Bach wrote:
>
>I can't get the simplest filter to work. Entering the test 'if (subject=
>"money") then delete', followed by sending myself an email, Subject
>"money", causes an error in my logfile saying "Field 'delete' unknown". 
>What am I missing? 

if (subject = "money") then delete

should do it. Note the spaces on either side of the "=". 

>I would also like to know for the future how to specify
>an appropriate directory to save the junk mail in. Could the filter
>command be 'if (subject="money") then save "~/.elm/junk"?

if (subject = "money") then save "~/junk"

All folders will be in your Freeport work directory, which
in Unix is called your home directory, or "~/" for short. 

Once you play around with this a bit, you'll get the hang of it.
But you have to be precise, since the slightest typo will cause
an error. 

Howard E.

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