Time to unsubscribe...
Greg Newby
gbnewby at ils.unc.edu
Tue Dec 25 15:57:49 PST 2001
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 at got.net
spam
# Yes, people still use friend at public.com!
:0
* ^To: Friend at 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 at useoz.com and ravage at ... 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.
>
> [list snipped]
>
> 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.
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