18 Feb 97 19:58, Mike Christian wrote to All:

 > I have several "local areas" on my point setup. They are meant to be 
 > read only.

How are these areas configured, out of interest?

 > But sometimes they get scanned when I exit MsgEd, I assume because
 > somehow they are included in my tosslog. Perhaps I move a message
 > into an area, I'm not sure what causes the local areas to be scanned,
 > but they occassionally are.

I can only assume you are writing mail to those areas.  If Msged were to
have an option to configure an area as read-only, then obviously you
wouldn't be able to write to it.  Do you want to write to those areas, or
not?  :-)

 > This puts unwanted mail in my outbound packets.

Your mail processor shouldn't be exporting local areas.  This is why I ask
how you have configured these "local" areas, and if they are
really "local".

 > Anyhoo, I was wondering if there is a way to tell Msged to NOT point to
 > certain areas in the tosslog it generates.

Not at this stage, no.  I'm not sure how you would configure something like
that.  In the meantime, if you have a copy of GNU grep, you can execute
something like this before you tell your mail processor to do a scan:

grep -ivx my_local_echo echotoss.log > echotoss.new
copy echotoss.new echotoss.log
grep -ivx my_other_local_echo echotoss.log > echotoss.new
copy echotoss.new echotoss.log
grep -ivx another_local_echo echotoss.log > echotoss.new
copy echotoss.new echotoss.log
[...]
del echotoss.new

`-i' tells grep to ignore case, `-v' tells grep to only print lines that
contain no matches for the search expression, and `-x' tells it to only
print lines where the match is a whole line.

A bit cumbersome perhaps, but workable.

Regards
Andrew

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