[Wylug-help] Conditional forward suggestions

[Martyn Ranyard]

I believe the answer is to use procmail rather than just a .forward file.

procmail is pretty damn powerful, has lots of options and exim can deliver
to procmail afaik.

Detecting if you're at your PC could be done using a service such as ifttt
to detect if your phone is on charge and connected to wifi or an nfc tag or
similar.

Cheers,
--
Martyn


On 28 April 2014 14:20, Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi folks.
>
> I currently have a .forward file that always delivers emails to my main
> mailbox for use when at my PC using kmail.
>
> It then filers out as much rubbish as it can before forwarding to my gmail
> account so I can access it from my phone.
>
> What I'm looking for is some way of disabling the forward to gmail if I'm
> currently at my PC.
>
> This gives me two problems,
>
> 1) how do I detect when I'm at my PC?
>
> 2) how do I disable / enable the forwarding?
>
> For this I was thinking of using a trigger file created / deleted by
> whatever
> method I get for (1) above. Then within my .forward check to see if this
> file
> exists.
>
> Can anyone say how I could do something like the following in a .forward
> file
>
> if <trigger file exists>
>   seen
>   finish
> endif
>
> Googling has only shown me exim.conf code but nothing to go in a .forward
>
> Gary
>
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