Forwarding to a mail list trouble.

Dave4x4 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:02:22 GMT

Hi All..

Peg V4.41, on Win2k.

Long time pmail user, since the mid 90's. However I've only ever used it for the usual mail stuff, from the Win3x days to now.

I'm guessing this might have been asked before, but I find the sites search clunky in the extreme, and unable to search relaibly on phrases, so here I am.

I'm having problems setting up a filter rule, to forward an incoming message to a smal number of club members in a mail list, including attachments, without suffering looping problems, whenever something bounces, or I send it to myself. This is for newsletter and other club notifications..

I have a list of members email addresses, and can trigger the rule to forward to them just fine. But if anything "bounces", or they reply to me without changing the subject, or I'm on the list (I get the list updated regularly from our club sec') I get the inevitable forwarding loop.... (It'd be good for me, to have it come back to me, as I then know it got out OK, but I don't want that in turn sent out again, and again, and again etc...)

How best to break this loop, 100% reliably? Other than remove my own mail address from the list, but that is only one cause of it.

I can't find a way for pmail to change the "From" address, or the "subject" text. The available rule triggers seem lacking in this respect. So far, I've spent two days trying to figure this out, and all I've done, is fill up my ISP's mailbox from time to time by accident.

The problem seems to be that Peg' is too willing to forward things, while trying to not show it's done so, making (afiks) preventing a loop, less than easy.

Is there any way I can get the filter rules to trigger on headers that are in the message, but not listed as options in the rules editor? Such as, Forwarded-By: for example? There is an option for sensing the "Return Path" header, but it seems not to work.

I sometimes write software in C or Pascal, so I'm not unfamilar with programming, looping, and rules etc, but I've probably been spoilt as a result, and expect too much of other things.

I'm doing it this way, as the various mail reflector sites I've tried strip attachments, for obvious reasons. However, we need such attachments to stay.

The list is setup with a unique "To:" field, and with a return address. But, I cannot get Peg to detect these to prevent a loop, if such a generated message comes back to me.

Any clues comments. What have I missed?

Regards.

Dave.

C an I sort by "forwarded" status?

selcor — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:39:14 GMT

You know how when you "forward" a message, you get a red arrow in the first column of the new mail folder. Can you sort or make a filter for that?

For example, I do a search in my new mail folder for emails that contain a certain "phrase" in the body of the email. Then I highlight the emails in the search window and "forward" them to another email.

After I'm fininshed, I go back to the New Mail window and have to "Move" them to a different folder-- right now i'm highlighting each one based on the red arrow, and them moving them to a folder-- it would be much easier if I could "sort" by that first column and click on first and last and move the whole batch. Better yet, it would be nice to make a filter or rule to do all this, but I can't figure out how to select the "forwarded" emails...

thanks

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Forwarding to a mail list trouble.

C an I sort by "forwarded" status?