* Jim Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How are you filtering these to go to procmail. I'd love to do that!
Well without actually seeing the original I can't say for sure which
procmail recipe caught it. But at a guess I'd say it was one of these
two...
,----[ ~/.procmailrc ]
| # # Spammers using AOL sometimes forget to add a Message-id:
| :0
| * ^From.*aol\.com
| * !^Message-id:.*aol\.com
| /dev/null
|
|
| # # "X-Advertisement" indicate, well, an advertisement.
| # # Use this rule to have them deleted automatically.
| :0
| * ^X-Advertisement:
| /dev/null
`----
The first one catches any message from the domain "aol.com" that
*doesn't* contain a Message-Id header with aol.com in it. Sometimes a
spammer will deliberately remove the Message-Id header to make it more
difficult to trace him.
The other recipe catches any mail that has an X-Advertisement header.
Now, I get enough junk mail in my snail mail letter box at home, I
don't want it coming to my over the internet as well.
I also use procmail to sort my mail into different mail folders (put
everything from linux-newbie in it's own folder, anything to me in a
folder called "private" etc).
Here's something you can do to get started and to test to see if
procmail is working...
Create a file called "~/.procmailrc" and put the following in it...
,----
| :0
| * ^From:.*your_linux_user_name_here
| $HOME/mail/private ### $HOME/mail must exist
`----
Now do...
,----
| echo "This was filtered by procmail" | mail -s "A test" your_user_name
`----
If everything went right that mail will be in the folder
~/mail/private
I have this pet hate with mailing lists and that is people who both
reply to the list and send a Cc to the author. (You may have seen me
whining about it before :) ). Well I was unable to convince the
masses that Cc'ing on a mailing list was a waste of time. So now I
get procmail to delete those extra messages for me.
Have a read of...
man procmail
man procmailex
man procmailrc
man procmailsc
man formail
<http://www.procmail.org/>
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