Using procmail is a very good way of handling mail filtering, in my opinion. You can easily combine it with a spam filter (ie. bmf; take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ for more info) to limit the amount of spam you receive. I think setting up new filters is not that a big deal, if you consider the great usage and portability of procmail (you're not limited to any specific MUA).
If you find it frustrating manually adding mail filters, why don't you write a li'l bash script? :) Well, just my .2 SEK worth. On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 03:24:36PM -0400, jude dashiell wrote: > Any number of ways exist to do what you want in Linux. If you use pine, > under setup and rules you'll find filters and you want to add a filter. > Then name the filter and fill in your criteria. Save it and exit and the > e-mail is gone. There's procmail but it like sendmail is a major bitch in > terms of getting operational and you have to keep on adding filters to it. > I may go back to procmail though having used pine because procmail can > forward spam to different mailing addresses very easily once you get it > set up correctly. mailfilter is another package that can do much the same > thing as well. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
