Clive Menzies declaimed: < quoted post snipped > > I'm just starting out on this road coming from getmail, exim, mutt to > mailfilter, fetchmail, procmail, spamassassin, exim, mutt. > It's taken some time but I've now got preconnect "mailfilter" in my > fetchmailrc with the following: > > DENY=^From:.*Microsoft > \(Network\|Security\|Corporation\|Security\|Message\|Internet\|Customer\|Support\)* > DENY=^From:.*MS > \(Network\|Security\|Corporation\|Security\|Internet\|Customer\|Support\)* > DENY=^From:.*Customer Bulletin > DENY=^From:.*Internet \(Email\|Service\|System\)* > DENY=^From:.*Security Department > DENY=^From:.*Email \(Delivery\|Service\)* > DENY=^From:.*CyberAtlas > > DENY=^To:.*net recipient > DENY=^To:.*Inet \(Client\|Recipient\)* > DENY=^To:.*Network \(Recipient\|Receiver\)* > DENY=^To:.*Mail \(Recipient\|Receiver\)* > DENY=^To:.*Commercial \(Client\|Consumer\)* > Thanks! I'll review the fetchmail/mailfilter docs & give this a whirl. Nice that you don't have to double & quadruple all the escapes as in .forward.
> Although I can call fetchmail from mutt I run it through crontab every > 5 minutes. I used to do that, but have switched to running fetchmail in daemon mode, launched with a reboot argument in my crontab: First 2 lines of .fetchmailrc, 879 is the repeat interval in millisecs: set daemon 879 poll mail.isp.com proto pop3 user "ispName" is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" $ crontab -l SHELL=/bin/sh # m h dom mon dow command @reboot /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/et/.fetchmailrc -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
