For procmail (available on Linux systems; for other Unix systems download from procmail.org): 1. Use a .forward file to forward to procmail: Mine looks like this, your might have a different path: "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail" 2. Edit a .procmailrc for procmail to use. It's not that hard, there are some good docs ("man procmailrc") Some extracts from mine: -- start of snippet from .procmailrc PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/ MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=/var/mail/gbnewby LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log # Backup the last 32 messages (per 'man procmailex') :0 c backup :0 ic | cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,32d` # Temporary redirects while I'm out of town: #:0 H #* cypherpunk # cypher-unread # Grep the header for @toad.com; put it in 'toad' mail folder # This might cut down on cypherpunks spam :0 H * @toad.com spam :0 H * ^Subject:.*Snowhite spam # tcmay's a pain in the ass :0 H * From:.*tcmay@got.net spam # Yes, people still use friend@public.com! :0 * ^To: Friend@public.com spam # Everything else just gets appended to DEFAULT -- end of snippet In the above, "spam" is a mail folder (literally, just a file). So, you can still read the stuff there... if you want to delete it permanently, use /dev/null instead of "spam" This will work fine with any Unix mail program that uses local files -- you'd need something different if you use IMAP or POP. 3. test, test test!!! You can do much more sophisticated filtering with procmail, but I find that most of what I want is to filter the To, From or Subject line based on a string or substring. -- Greg On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:14:51PM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling from mattd@useoz.com and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters. If someone knows of a filtered version of this list, please let me know.
Since you seem to be ignorant msoft user, use made-for-idiots yahoo throwaway and set this in the "block addresses" (under options):
Just for the record, I'm not an ignorant MS user. I'm an ignorant user of something else, far more subtle.
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Choate and Mattd seem to be responsible for more than half the traffic, and basically none of the value on this list. I think it would be almost tolerable without them on it. Ok, time to figure out the mysteries of filtering.