Re: How to IGNORE massive To: and Cc: spams
ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
[this is only of interest to UNIX(tm) users. Windows users, please ignore]
I suspect that a typical Windows user with a POP account usually has a unix account and a home directory (although its shell may be /etc/false or some such); he may be able to ftp to it and create a .forward file pointing to procmail, who will look at the incoming mail before passing on to his PPP. I don't really know shit about this, so don't flame me if this doesn't work. :-) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
[this is only of interest to UNIX(tm) users. Windows users, please ignore]
I suspect that a typical Windows user with a POP account usually has a unix account and a home directory (although its shell may be /etc/false or some such); he may be able to ftp to it and create a .forward file pointing to procmail, who will look at the incoming mail before passing on to his PPP. I don't really know shit about this, so don't flame me if this doesn't work. :-)
If the user shell is /bin/false, most likely the .forward file will not be able to invoke any programs. - Igor.
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
[this is only of interest to UNIX(tm) users. Windows users, please ignore]
I suspect that a typical Windows user with a POP account usually has a unix account and a home directory (although its shell may be /etc/false or some such); he may be able to ftp to it and create a .forward file pointing to procmail, who will look at the incoming mail before passing on to his PPP. I don't really know shit about this, so don't flame me if this doesn't work. :-)
If the user shell is /bin/false, most likely the .forward file will not be able to invoke any programs.
- Igor.
This is a real problem to me. As I recieve mail via cslip using popclient there seems to be no way to get it sorted. Though I'm not a programmer at all I could instruct procmail to do what I want. It works fine when I'm sending mail from one account to the other locally. You can find information on procmail on the net (and this list). But nobody seems to know about popclient, which according to the man-pages may be influenced by an awk-script to do sorting. Does anybody know about an example script on that? An URL? Not that I know about awk. But you can't do anything w/o trying. -Tom ################################################################################ Heinz-Juergen Keller hjk@ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de Derendorfer Str.36 voice:49-211-464314 40479 Duesseldorf Germany ################################################################################
try using fetchmail linstead of popclient. fetchmail passes all emails on to the local (localhost) sendmail. igor =?iso-latin-de?Q?Heinz-J=FCrgen_Keller?= wrote:
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home) writes:
[this is only of interest to UNIX(tm) users. Windows users, please ignore]
I suspect that a typical Windows user with a POP account usually has a unix account and a home directory (although its shell may be /etc/false or some such); he may be able to ftp to it and create a .forward file pointing to procmail, who will look at the incoming mail before passing on to his PPP. I don't really know shit about this, so don't flame me if this doesn't work. :-)
If the user shell is /bin/false, most likely the .forward file will not be able to invoke any programs.
- Igor.
This is a real problem to me. As I recieve mail via cslip using popclient there seems to be no way to get it sorted. Though I'm not a programmer at all I could instruct procmail to do what I want. It works fine when I'm sending mail from one account to the other locally. You can find information on procmail on the net (and this list). But nobody seems to know about popclient, which according to the man-pages may be influenced by an awk-script to do sorting. Does anybody know about an example script on that? An URL? Not that I know about awk. But you can't do anything w/o trying.
-Tom
################################################################################ Heinz-Juergen Keller hjk@ddorf.rhein-ruhr.de Derendorfer Str.36 voice:49-211-464314 40479 Duesseldorf Germany ################################################################################
- Igor.
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This is a real problem to me. As I recieve mail via cslip using popclient there seems to be no way to get it sorted. Though I'm not a programmer at all I could instruct procmail to do what I want. It works fine when I'm sending mail from one account to the other locally. You can
I'm using fetchpop under Linux to grab my email. It has an option to feed it to procmail for delivery to your local mailbox. It works great for me. You should be able to find it at the usual Linux mirror sites. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nexus Computing | Hardware and Software Design www.eskimo.com/~nexus | Motorola, Microchip and Linux solutions - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by mkpgp, a Pine/PGP interface. iQCVAwUBM1RUTaQxGtxXsXypAQEmxgQAkKDeVNocxPpGq4y1aSy72/1fy1i9GrGI +gs5sS6tBEb/uALVDXURVbaaT+ngIbZW7aJzbaBuqAu7eLMYjKwx6cAXuc0EL0LN QGeV9HVD62VGaKQAPaDMFG89GV3DyETac5xbTHCrNRrhj2ACei4tpG52vFyMv9V4 oC87jbJOiv4= =ykLg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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